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Taliban
militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia
By Rashid, Ahmed
- ISBN
- 978-0-30008-340-8
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2000
Afghanistan's position as a crossroads in Central Asia made it part of the 19th-century Great Game of imperialism and brings it to international strategic prominence once again. Rashid is a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review who has covered Afghanistan's changing fortunes since the 1978 Soviet invasion. In his second book, he covers the origin and rise of the Taliban, its concepts of Islam on questions of gende...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
