The Pashtun borderland : a religious and cultural history of the Taliban / Jan-Peter Hartung, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Author/creator Hartung, Jan-Peter author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Description418 pages
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Contents Introduction : the "Taliban" of the present book -- Setting the stage : conceptualizing the "Pashtun borderland" -- Chief trajectories of militant religious activism in the Pashtun borderland : the antecedents -- Chief trajectories of militant religious activism in the Pashtun borderland : acceleration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Epilogue : who and what were -- and are -- (the) Taliban?
Abstract "A history of the religious and socio political developments in the Pashtun borderland of modern Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 17th century, and how these have informed the worldview of the various Taliban organizations of present times"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2024011588
ISBN9781009289276
ISBN1009289276
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