Jihad
The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
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Editions of Jihad
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Yale Univ Pr |
Date 2002 |
Price $2.89 |
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Penguin Group USA |
Date 2003 |
Price $4.04 |
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Publisher Notes
The author of Taliban profiles the military Islamic republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, discussing the roots of fundamentalism in central Asia, the goals of their military organizations, and ways in which such threats can be neutralized.
Media Reviews
"...Rashid again puts his formidable reportorial powers to work on another little-understood subject: the various "stans" of the former Soviet Union that remain uncomfortably suspended "between Marx and Mohammed," as one scholar of the region has put it....Rashid sets out to redress this information deficit, and his tour d'horizon is a tour de force, illuminating one of the murkier regions of the world."
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