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The Taliban Reader: War, Islam and Politics in their Own Words Kindle Edition
The Taliban Reader forges a new path, bringing together an extensive range of largely unseen sources in a guide to the Afghan Islamist movement from a unique insider perspective. Ideal for students, journalists and scholars alike, this book is the result of an unprecedented, decade-long effort to encourage the emergence of participant-centered accounts of Afghan history.
This ground-breaking collection, ranging from news articles and opinion pieces to online publications and poems transcribed by hand in the field, sets the stage for a recalibration of how we understand and study the Afghan Taliban. It challenges researchers to forge new norms in the documentation of conflict and provides insight into the future trajectory of political Islamism in South Asia and the Middle East.
- ISBN-13978-0190908744
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateJuly 1, 2018
- LanguageEnglish
- File size1955 KB
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"A very useful and indeed unique collection of Taliban statements, extracts and commentaries, several of which have never before been in the public domain, in any language. Van Linschoten and Kuehn have rendered an invaluable service in contributing to our understanding of the Taliban as state and organisation."-- Antonio Giustozzi, Visiting Professor, King's College London and author of The Army of Afghanistan: A Political History of a Fragile Institution
"A stunning documentary trail of the Taliban movement from its origins in the early 1980s to the present -- this compilation of voices from the Taliban is a truly unique contribution. It will foster new insight into a movement of which relatively little is known, despite its continued significance far beyond Afghanistan." -- Astri Suhrke, Senior Researcher, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen and author of When More is Less: The International Project in Afghanistan
"This compendium represents an absolutely brilliant and lasting contribution to the study of Afghanistan and the Taliban. Strick van Linschoten and Kuehn's editorial comments systematically pull the themes of the primary sources into a coherent whole. I highly recommend this authoritative and rare compilation."--Thomas H. Johnson, Research Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey and author of Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
"While much about the Taliban movement remains mysterious, this pathbreaking collection, expertly assembled by two of the leading scholars of the movement, provides crucial insights into the development of a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, and a valuable point of departure for those concerned with how the Taliban might evolve in rapidly changing times."-- William Maley, Professor of Diplomacy at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University and author of What is a Refugee?"What appears to be the most remarkable achievement of the study is the filling of a research gap ... The collection of primary source materials undertaken by the authors has significantly enriched the literature on the topic." -- Insight Turkey
"Much of what is written about the Taliban is hearsay. As they have done many times before, Strick and Kuehn put most journalists and experts to shame, relying on largely primary sources and assembling a wealth of translated documents that provide invaluable insights into what the Taliban were, are, and are likely to become. The Taliban Reader is an essential book for anyone wishing to understand not just this movement, but Islamist movements worldwide." -- Ben Anderson, author and journalist
"^lThe Taliban Reader is a must have, particularly for scholars interested in producing research about the Taliban based on primary sources." -- ^lReading Religion
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- ASIN : B07F37SB8S
- Publisher : Oxford University Press (July 1, 2018)
- Publication date : July 1, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 1955 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 572 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0190908742
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,885,203 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,075 in Terrorism (Kindle Store)
- #1,193 in National & International Security (Kindle Store)
- #3,290 in Terrorism (Books)
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