Before Taliban : genealogies of the Afghan jihad /

David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history -- Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad -- to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discor...

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Tác giả chính: Edwards, David B.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press 2002.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv86
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  • 1. Introduction : into forbidden Afghanistan
  • pt. 1. The Saur revolution
  • 2. Lives of the Party
  • 3. The armature of Khalqi power
  • Coda : the death of a President
  • pt. 2. The Pech uprising
  • 4. A son of Safi
  • 5. Anatomy of a tribal uprising
  • Coda : the death of a Safi daughter
  • pt. 3. The Islamic jihad
  • 6. Muslim youth
  • 7. Fault lines in the Afghan jihad
  • Coda : the death of Majrooh
  • 8. Epilogue : Topakan and Taliban.