The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan / edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008. - vi, 430 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-417) and index.

Explaining the Taliban's ability to mobilize the Pashtuns / Abdulkader Sinno -- The rise and fall of the Taliban / Neamatollah Nojumi -- The Taliban, women, and the Hegelian private sphere / Juan R.I. Cole -- Taliban and Talibanism in historical perspective / M. Nazif Shahrani -- Remembering the Taliban / Lutz Rzehak -- Fraternity, power, and time in Central Asia / Robert L. Canfield -- Moderate Taliban? / Robert D. Crews -- The Neo-Taliban / Amin Tarzi -- Epilogue : Afghanistan and the Pax Americana / Atiq Sarwari and Robert D. Crews.

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