Rashid, Ahmed, <br/><br/>
Taliban :  militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia /  [print] 
Ahmed Rashid. 
 - New Haven :  Yale University Press,  (c)2001. 
 - xix, 274 pages :  maps ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Yale Note Bene." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99068718 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Taliban.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan.<br/>Islam and state--Afghanistan.<br/>Islam and politics--Afghanistan.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS371.R224.T355 2001 DS371