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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.