- Politics and government, Islam and politics, Oil fields, Islamic fundamentalism
Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban inspires fascination, controversy, and especially fear in both the Muslim world and the West.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ahmed Rashid
- First published
- March 2000
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Yale University Press, Chongqing chu ban she
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- urd, French, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780300266825
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“The Taliban Governor of Kandahar, Mullah Mohammed Hassan Rehmani, has a disconcerting habit of pushing the table in front of him with his one good leg.”
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