Taliban : militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid

By: Rashid, Ahmed.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000.Description: xi, 274 p.ISBN: 0300089023.Subject(s): Taliban | Islamic fundamentalism -- Afghanistan | Petroleum industry and trade -- Central Asia | Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-DDC classification: 958.104

Contents:

Kandahar 1994: the origins of the Taliban -- Herat 1995: God's invincible soldiers -- Kabul 1996: commander of the faithful -- Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: massacre in the north -- Bamiyan 1998-99: the never-ending war -- Challenging Islam: the new-style fundamentalism of the Taliban -- Secret society: the Taliban's political and military organization -- A vanished gender: women, children and Taliban culture -- High on heroin: drugs and the Taliban economy -- Global jihad: the Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden -- Dictators and oil barons: the Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel -- Romancing the Taliban 1: the battle for pipelines 1994-96 -- Romancing the Taliban 2: the battle for pipelines 1997-99: the USA and the Taliban -- Master or victim: Pakistan's Afghan war -- Shia and Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia -- Conclusion: the future of Afghanistan.

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