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The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan / edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: vi, 430 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780674026902
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • DS 371.3 .C74 2008

Includes bibliographical references—(p. 359-417) and index.

Contents: Maps—Note on transliteration—Introduction

Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi (p. 1)—1. Explaining the Taliban’s ability to mobilize the Pashtuns

Abdulkader Sinno (p. 59)—2. The rise and fall of the Taliban

Neamatollah Nojumi (p. 90)—3. The Taliban, women, and the Hegelian private sphere

Juan R. I. Cole (p. 118)—4. Taliban and Talibanism in historical perspective

M. Nazif Shahrani (p. 155)—5. Remembering the Taliban

Lutz Rzehak (p. 182)—6. Fraternity, power, and time in Central Asia

Robert L. Canfield (p. 212)—7. Moderate Taliban?

Robert D. Crews (p. 238)—8. The Neo-Taliban

Amin Tarzi (p. 274)—Epilogue : Afghanistan and the Pax Americana

Atiq Sarwari and Robert D. Crews (p. 311)—Notes—Contributors—Acknowledgments—Index.

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