Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- Dedication -- FOREWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE FIRST EDITION -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION: AFGHANISTAN'S HOLY WARRIORS -- Part 1 History of the Taliban Movement -- 1 KANDAHAR 1994: THE ORIGINS OF THE TALIBAN -- 2 HERAT 1995: GOD'S INVINCIBLE SOLDIERS -- 3 KABUL 1996: COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL -- 4 MAZAR-E-SHARIF 1997: MASSACRE IN THE NORTH -- 5 BAMIYAN 1998-99: THE NEVER-ENDING WAR -- Part 2 Islam and the Taliban -- 6 CHALLENGING ISLAM: THE NEW-STYLE FUNDAMENTALISM OF THE TALIBAN -- 7 SECRET SOCIETY: THE TALIBAN'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY ORGANIZATION -- 8 A VANISHED GENDER: WOMEN, CHILDREN AND TALIBAN CULTURE -- 9 HIGH ON HEROIN: DRUGS AND THE TALIBAN ECONOMY -- 10 GLOBAL JIHAD: THE ARAB-AFGHANS AND OSAMA BIN LADEN -- Part 3 The New Great Game -- 11 DICTATORS AND OIL BARONS: THE TALIBAN AND CENTRAL ASIA, RUSSIA, TURKEY AND ISRAEL -- 12 ROMANCING THE TALIBAN 1: THE BATTLE FOR PIPELINES 1994-96 -- 13 ROMANCING THE TALIBAN 2: THE BATTLE FOR PIPELINES 1997-99 - THE USA AND THE TALIBAN -- 14 MASTER OR VICTIM: PAKISTAN'S AFGHAN WAR -- 15 SHIA VERSUS SUNNI: IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA -- 16 CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF AFGHANISTAN -- 17 THE TALIBAN RESURGENT 2000-2009 -- Appendix 1 A sample of Taliban decrees relating to women and other cultural issues, after the capture of Kabul, 1996 -- Appendix 2 Structure of the Taliban -- Appendix 3 A CHRONOLOGY OF THE TALIBAN -- Appendix 4 The New Great Game -- Appendix 5 Glossary of Afghan terms -- Appendix 6 2021 CABINET LIST FOR TALIBAN -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
This modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia into sharp focus. Ahmed Rashid offers an authoritative account of the Taliban's rise to power, the effects of changing American attitudes toward it, and the new faces of Islamic fundamentalism, and explains why Afghanistan has become the world's center for international terrorism. This edition, updated in view of the Taliban's resurgence and sudden, renewed purchase on Afghanistan's major cities, explores how the group regained its strength and broadened its geographical reach. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the events that unfolded in 2021 following America's withdrawal from the country after twenty years of war.
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The American bombing of terrorist bases in Afghanistan under the protection of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement has brought the Taliban into sharp focus as the most radical and extreme Islamic movement in the world today. Little is known about the Taliban because of the deep secrecy that surrounds their political movement, their leaders and their aims.The geo-strategic implications of the Taliban are already creating severe instability in Russia, Iran and the five Central Asian republics where the Taliban have become a major player in the new Great Game, as Western countries and companies compete to build oil and gas pipelines from Central Asia to Western and Asian markets.The Taliban's implementation of their extreme interpretation of Islam poses new challenges to the Muslim world and the West's understanding of radical Islam in the post-Cold War era.'This is an impressive and eminently readable analysis of the Taliban movement, of its background and impact on Afghanistan, and of the wider regional and geopolitical implications of the Taliban's advent to power. The author himself is especially well placed to provide this account, having covered Afghanistan itself for two decades and having direct access to policy-makers in Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia. This is not the first book to be written on the Taliban, or Afghanistan in the 1990s. It promises, however, to be by far the strongest. It would be hard to see how anyone could rival the range and details of this account: this bids well to be the leading book on the subject.' - Professor Fred Halliday, London School of EconomicsTaliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game was runner-up in the prestigious annual British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize, administered by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
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