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SUBJECT GUIDE Anthropology 19 Armed Struggle 16 Asian History 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 20 Biography 1 History 19 International Relations 2, 3, 5 , 17, 21 Islamic Studies 8, 13, 18, 20 Middle East 7, 9 Military History 6 Politics 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18 South Asia 1, 2, 11, 12 Terrorism 8, 16
MY LIFE WITH THE TALIBAN ABDUL SALAM ZAEEF
ZAEEF
‘Just as Afghanistan faces a crucial choice, we have a book that for the first time places readers at the heart of the Taliban’s way of thinking — My Life with perhaps, since Khmer Rouge, has a movement emerged on the the ‘Not, Taliban, bytheMullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former world stage about which so much is opaque to outsiders as the Taliban. Much of that opacity is, of course, intentional. Into this murk Mullahto Abdul Salam Taliban minister and ambassador Pakistan, who Zaeef shines some much-needed light with his fascinating memoir as a Taliban insider. By virtue of his role as the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Zaeef was spent over four years in Guantánamo prison. privy to the Taliban’s decision-making in the run up to 9/11 and thereafter. And his story has much to say about the nature of the gathering insurgency that Originally in face. Pashto, of the NATO and thepublished United States presently If Presidentthe Obamalanguage wanted a window into the thinking of the Taliban today he couldn’t do better than this.’ Pashtuns, has been beautifully Peter Bergen,the authorbook of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know translated entire world wants toedited. understand the Taliban theseYork days, it seems, as theof Books and‘The extensively ’— New Review war in Afghanistan becomes the topic of the moment. Precious few people can
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ISBN 978-1-84904-026-6 ‘Precious few people can tell the inside story of the www.hurstpub.co.uk Jacket Design | Illustration: Fatima Jamadar © Taliban, which makes Mullah Zaeef’s autobiography an incredibly important book.9If781849 your040266 government HURST sends soldiers to Afghanistan, you must read this. ... By the time you’re finished reading, you might not sympathise with the Taliban — but you will know them as people, not monsters.’ — Graeme Smith, Globe and Mail
This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. Translated from Pashto, his memoirs are more than just a personal account of an extraordinary life: they offer a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. My Life with the Taliban offers insights into the Pashtun village communities that are the Taliban’s bedrock and helps to explain what drives men like Zaeef to take up arms against the foreigners who are foolish enough to invade his homeland. PUB DATE
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ALEX STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN and FELIX KUEHN are researchers and writers permanently based in Kandahar. In 2006 they founded AfghanWire.com, an organisation and website that pursues awareness of Afghan issues and opinions largely unrecognised by the international media.
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Biography South Asia
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EMPIRES OF MUD WARS AND WARLORDS IN AFGHANISTAN ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI ‘The first book to provide a political sociology of warlordism in Afghanistan; its purpose is to understand in detail how warlord polities work, expand and disintegrate. Empires of Mud will become required reading, both for academics and policy-makers studying the phenomenon of warlordism, and for those with a specialist interest in Afghanistan.’ — Dr Jonathan Goodhand, School of Oriental and African Studies
ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI has spent more than a decade visiting, researching and writing on Afghanistan. He is a Research Fellow based at the Crisis States Research Centre at the LSE and edited Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Fields (Hurst, 2009) PUB DATE 2009
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Warlords, namely charismatic military leaders who exploit the weakness of central authorities to seize control of and autonomously rule a subnational area, have earned much notoriety in recent years on account of the excesses of civil wars in Liberia, Somalia and Afghanistan. But notwithstanding their bad reputation, warlords have often participated in state formation. In Empires of Mud Giustozzi analyses the dynamics of warlordism in Afghanistan within the context of such debates. The lion’s share of the book consists of an indepth analysis of the systems of rule—political, economic, military—which developed under Afghanistan’s two foremost warlords, Ismail Khan and Abdul Rashid Dostum, both of whom still wield considerable power even after the intervention of Allied forces in Afghanistan in 2001. Their two systems are compared, highlighting convergences and divergences, in order to explain how warlords administer the areas that they control within so-called ‘failed states’, in the process challenging much of the received wisdom in scholarly and policy circles about warlordism. The author also discusses Ahmad Shah Massoud, whose ‘system’ incorporated elements of rule not dissimilar from that of the warlords.
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Intl. Relations South Asia
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DECODING THE NEW TALIBAN INSIGHTS FROM THE AFGHAN FIELD ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI ‘Far removed from the usual clichés and hasty generalisations, Decoding the New Taliban offers the reader a keen, first-hand sense of field research in Afghanistan, with all its uncertainties and contradictions. The authors, working on different regions or themes, offer new data and thought-provoking analyses. This book is an important step in understanding our failure in the current war.’ — Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan 1979 to the Present
Insights from the Afghan Field Antonio Giustiozzi editor
While the ‘New Taliban’ looms large in the global media, little is known about how it functions as an organisation. How united is it? Are its structures relatively strong, or surprisingly brittle? Are personal relations and networking based on traditional ties of kin and ethnicity the sum total of its organisational capabilities, or are efforts underway to build more institutionalised chains of command? How united is the New Taliban, and how does it maintain whatever degree of unity it has, given the attrition it has suffered in the field? And to what extent is its leadership able to impose switches in strategy among the rank-and-file, given Afghanistan’s difficult geography and poor communications? These are among the questions answered in this book by a renowned cast of practitioners, journalists and academics, all of whom have long field experience of the latest phase of the New Taliban’s insurgency in Afghanistan. Decoding the New Taliban includes a number of detailed studies of specific regions or provinces, which for different reasons are especially significant for the Taliban and for understanding their expansion. Alongside these regional studies, the volume includes thematic analyses of negotiating with the Taliban, the Taliban’s propaganda effort and its strategic vision.
PUB DATE 2009
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Intl. Relations Politics
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KORAN, KALASHNIKOV AND LAPTOP THE NEO-TALIBAN INSURGENCY IN AFGHANISTAN, 2002–7 ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI ‘Provides a balanced, objective and unsensationalised consideration of the emergence of the neo-Taliban, taking on board the many perspectives and insights provided by numerous actors and analysts while also drawing on the author’s own conclusions. In so-doing, it covers new and important ground in research on Afghanistan.’ — Peter Marsden, author, The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan (1998) ‘The Taliban were routed but not defeated in the dying days of 2001. This detailed study chronicles the rise of what Giustozzi labels “The Neo-Taliban”. Separate chapters treat how and why the neo-Taliban were recruited, their organization, their tactics and strategy, and the counterinsurgency efforts of the Afghan government and its outside supporters. With copious cross-referencing, he works in such subjects as the continued involvement of Pakistan, the drug trade, neo-Taliban relations with Al Qaeda, and the rural-versus-urban dimension of this struggle. Giustozzi’s main argument is that the neo-Taliban would have been no more than a nuisance but for their ability to exploit the weakness of the Afghan state, “both as it was originally conceived and as it was ‘rebuilt’ from 2001.” He concludes that reining in the neo-Taliban by arms or diplomacy will be more difficult now than reining in the original was five years ago. He also sees the group’s strategy as having shifted in its new form from national resistance to global Jihad.’ — Foreign Affairs
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Asian History
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MAKING SENSE OF PAKISTAN FARZANA SHAIKH
‘a brilliant new book.’ — Peter Preston, The Guardian ‘Phrases such as “failed state” and “country on the brink” have been bandied around about Pakistan for so long that many people might hazard a guess about the causes of the country’s woes: a history of military rule; corrupt and inefficient politicians; a failure to confront extremists; or the thrall of the US . ... But Farzana Shaikh has a more radical analysis of the origins of Pakistan’s problems. The Chatham House fellow argues that the troubles of the country stem from its very inception; from an uncertainty about what Pakistan, as a nation, should represent, and what it means to be a Pakistani.’ — The Independent
Making Sense of
pakistan
‘Intellectually acute, impressively researched, and strongly argued.’ — Anatol Lieven, The American Prospect ‘Farzana Shaikh’s knowledge is encyclopedic, her methods of analysis simple but intense, her writing beautifully lucid—there is nobody better to explain what Barack Obama calls the most dangerous place in the world.’ — Ahmed Rashid ‘The title of Farzana Shaikh’s book strikes a chord. ... Her scholarship is impressive in the way her work links the problems of present-day Pakistan with the cultural and historical forces that shaped the demand for the country. ... In this broad yet discriminating study, these insights from history are skilfully deployed to disentangle Pakistan’s troubled present.’ — Dawn, Karachi
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farzana shaikh
FARZANA SHAIKH is an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London. She has a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and is a former Research Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Recently a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, she has lectured widely on Pakistan and South Asian Islam at universities in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. She is the author of Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860–1947 (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
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Asian History Intl. relations
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COUNTERINSURGENCY DAVID KILKULLEN
In praise of The Accidental Guerrilla ‘For a wider perspective on the lessons drawn over the past seven years of the “war on terror”, the reader can do no better than turn to Mr Kilcullen’s excellent book. The Accidental Guerrilla has an anthropologist’s sense of social dynamics and a reporter’s eye for telling detail. If T.E. Lawrence evoked the means of waging irregular warfare in his 1926 classic, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Mr Kilcullen describes the practitioner’s art of comb‑ ating insurgents.’ — The Economist ‘The Accidental Guerrilla is a master class in counterinsurgency.’ — The Boston Globe
DAVID KILCULLEN was formerly the Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq and is now currently advising General Stanley Mc Chrystal, the US and NATO commander in Afghanistan. Kilcullen is also Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. PUB DATE May 2010
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David Kilcullen is one of the world’s most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas ‘are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west’ (Washington Post). Indeed, this Australian former soldier’s vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced America’s decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement ‘the Surge,’ now recognized as a dramatic success. In Counterinsurgency, Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this vitally important topic. Here is a picture of modern warfare by someone who has had his boots on the ground in some of today’s worst trouble spots—including Iraq and Afghanistan—and who has been studying counterinsurgency since 1985. Moreover, as noted in a profile of Kilcullen in The New Yorker, the author is ‘an energetic writer who avoids military and socialscience jargon.’ Filled with down-to-earth, commonsense insights, this book is the definitive account of counterinsurgency in the post 9/11 era.
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Military History
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THE ACCIDENTAL GUERRILLA
FIGHTING SMALL WARS IN THE MIDST OF A BIG ONE DAVID KILCULLEN ‘This book should be required reading for anyone involved in the war on terror. Kilcullen’s central concept of the “accidental guerrilla” is brilliant and the policy prescriptions that flow from it important. And that’s not all; the book has many more insights drawn from various battlefields.’ — Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
fighting small wars in the midst of a big one
‘David Kilcullen’s Accidental Guerrilla is a richly reported and well written account of the new way of war of the twenty-first century; how those “small wars” will differ from previous conflicts and what they have in common with past insurgencies and counterinsurgencies. Analytically very sharp and also an engrossing read, Kilcullen’s book is destined to become a classic study of warfare in our new century.’ — Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama and Laden I Know, is CNN’s national security analyst. Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerrilla is a perceptive, argumentative handbook on how to fix a problem. [...] His argument is that while “there is a global enemy”, it amounts to “only 2 per cent to 5 per cent of the people we’ve been fighting since 9/11”. Many of the others are “Accidental Terrorists”, provoked into retaliation by intrusion into their territory or disputes. [...] His strength is in knowledge of the different enemies and their motivation, and it is his case that without understanding those subtleties, the battle is lost.’ — The Times
david kilcullen
‘This book is essential.... Kilcullen skillfully interprets the future of counterinsurgency, the proper use of military force and what we must learn from our losses and mistakes. After reading The Accidental Guerrilla, one is left to wonder why the Pentagon did not listen to his sage advice back in 2003.’ — New York Times Book Review
PUB DATE 2009
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Politics Middle East
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LANDSCAPES OF THE JIHAD MILITANCY, MORALITY, MODERNITY FAISAL DEVJI
‘Landscapes of the Jihad is, in its unconventional thinking, an oasis in the wearisome desert of Al-Qaeda studies. It is, in the best possible sense, subversive.’ — The Economist ‘A brilliant long essay on the ethical underpinnings of modern Jihad Martyrdom, observes Devji rightly, ‘’only achieves meaning by being witnessed by the media.’’ It is, in short, a horrendous form of advertising.’ — New York Review of Books ‘One of the most intelligent analyses of the worldview of the militant Islamist.’ — The New Statesman ‘Devji’s very original book analyses Al Qaeda and jihad in metaphysical terms, discarding geostrategic and cultural factors, hence the West is presented as a metaphysical entity....His original analysis of the writings of Osama bin Laden and Ayman AlZawahiri is very illuminating and substantiates his iconoclastic approach.’ — Professor Olivier Roy Al Qaeda and its jihad, Devji suggests, are only the most visible manifestations of wider changes in the Muslim world. Such changes include the fragmentation of traditional as well as fundamentalist forms of authority. In his view Al Qaeda represents a new way of organising Muslim belief and practise within a global landscape and does not require ideological or institutional unity. Offering a compelling explanation for the central purpose of Al Qaeda’s jihad against the West, the meaning of its strategies and tactics, and its moral and aesthetic dimensions, Landscapes of the Jihad is at once a sophisticated work of historical and cultural analysis and an invaluable guide to the world’s most prominent terrorist movement.
FAISAL DEVJI is Reader in the History of South Asia, St Antony’s College, Oxford University. PUB DATE 2005
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Islamic Studies Terrorism
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THE TERRORIST IN SEARCH OF HUMANITY MILITANT ISLAM AND GLOBAL POLITICS FAISAL DEVJI
‘Faisal Devji finds room for the terrorist inside a paradoxical analysis of the new global politics made possible by spectacular events and shared concerns. His book is destined to become one of the most influential works on the meaning of Islamic global militancy.’ — E. Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University
Militant Islam and Global Politics FAISAL DEVJI
‘This brilliantly provocative book upsets many of the conventional understandings of “Islamic terrorism’” which pervade the Western academy and public life.’ — Sir Christopher Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge ‘Faisal Devji has, as usual, written a fascinating book. Starting with an apparent paradox (terrorists as humanitarians), he explores in depth the modernity of al-Qaeda and the real nature of humanitarian concerns. He has provided us with a profound philosophical analysis of globalization.’ — Professor Olivier Roy ‘An original, timely and extremely impressive contribution to the scholarship on militant Islam and contemporary global politics...Devji’s analytical focus is the moral economy of militant Islam’s struggle against the West. While, for those operating within it, this struggle contains the potential for a new global politics, he shows how Islamic militancy suffers from de-politicisation as a consequence of its global diffusion, lack of political instrumentality and institutional realisation. The result of this is an “existential dimension” to militant ideas and practices which Devji ela‑ borates upon while also offering substantive historical and conceptual engagement with their separate themes.’ — Shane Brighton, Birkbeck College, University of London
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2009
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FAISAL DEVJI is Reader in the History of South Asia, St Antony’s College, Oxford University.
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Middle East Politics
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REVOLUTION UNENDING AFGHANISTAN: 1979 TO THE PRESENT GILLES DORRONSORO
‘This magnificent work of research and interpretation deserves to become a classic in the field.’ — Anatol Lieven, Carnegie Endowment ’One of the finest studies of the origins, structure, and conduct of the conflicts in Afghanistan.’ — Professor Barnett Rubin ’For an authoritative account of modern Afghan history, turn to Dorronsoro’s Revolution Unending, deftly translated from the French by John King.’ — Peter Bergen, Washington Post GILLES DORRONSORO is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.
PUB DATE 2005
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SIZE 234 x 156
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History
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ISBN 978-1-85065-683-8 978-1-85065-703-3
RESCUING AFGHANISTAN WILLIAM MALEY ‘[a] slim, lucid, dispassionate overview.’ — Dominick Donald, The Guardian ‘Maley gives a balanced and sober account of Afghanistan’s situation. ... it is a depressingly familiar story of political infighting and well-meaning but misguided interference followed up by broken promises.’ — Adelaide Review Afghanistan remains on a knife-edge and has relapsed into dangerous insecurity. Elite political competition is fierce, and President Hamid Karzai remains wedded to a politics of bargaining and networking that has seen unappetising figures promoted to positions they have then abused. The political background to the resurgence of the Taliban is one of the key themes addressed in William Maley’s volume. WILLIAM MALEY is Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at ANU , Canberra and taught for many years in the School of Politics, Australian Defence Force Academy. He has written extensively on Afghanistan. PUB DATE 2006
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Politics Government
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ISBN 978-1-85065-846-7
STORMING THE WORLD STAGE THE STORY OF LASHKAR-E-TAIBA STEPHEN TANKEL ‘Impressive because of its reliance on interviews conducted in Pakistan and elsewhere with officials, journalists and, on occasion, with some of the participants in the jihad. All of this brings a level of freshness to this work which is often absent.’ — Professor Sumit Ganguly, University of Indiana On 21 November 2008, in a series of simultaneous and well-coordinated attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba gunmen killed more than 170 people and injured over 300 in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital. The victims included not only the Indian elite, but also Jews and Westerners The Mumbai attacks announced Lashkar-eTaiba’s emergence on the world stage. Lashkar rose to prominence on the back of Pakistani state sponsorship for the insurgency in Kashmir, but has sent fighters to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as providing essential assistance to alQaeda. Were these attacks evidence that the group is moving deeper into al-Qaeda’s orbit? Or were they simply the latest attempts by which the group sought to harm Pakistan’s historic rival, India? This book attempts to provide the back-story necessary to address these and other pressing questions. It charts Lashkar’s development from a small group unable to make a dent in the Afghan jihad against the Soviets to the most feared organization in Kashmir and India as well as a powerhouse in Pakistani society. Along the way, it considers the nature of the threat Lashkar poses to Pakistan, India, and the West and how that threat has evolved since the Mumbai attacks.
PUB DATE May 2010
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STORMING The wORld STaGe The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba
Stephen tankel
STEPHEN TANKEL is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR) , King’s College, University of London, and also holds the title of Davis Peace and Security Fellow at the EastWest Institute, where he previously served as the Deputy Policy Director.
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Politics South Asia
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BEYOND THE ‘WILD TRIBES’
UNDERSTANDING MODERN AFGHANISTAN AND ITS DIASPORA CERI OEPPEN AND ANGELA SCHLENKOFF (EDS)
D THE B E YO N‘W ILD TRIBES’
UND ERSTA NDIN G
MOD ERN AF AND GHANIST A ITS D IASPO N RA
Ceri Oeppen and Angela Schlenkhoff (eds)
Afghanistan and its people, whether in Afghanistan or in its global diaspora, have generated substantial interest in recent years and the desire to under‑ stand more about the country is widely felt. International organisations, non-governmental organisations and journalists are key sources of information on contemporary Afghanistan, but their ability to undertake research is often limited by their mandate. This volume, edited by Ceri Oeppen and Angela Schlenkhoff , brings together the work of some of the leading European specialists studying Afghanistan and its diaspora. It collates work that contributes to our understanding of modern Afghanistan, and moves beyond the caricatures of Afghanistan and the Afghans that have their roots in European imperial texts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beyond the ‘Wild Tribes’ contains chapters on a wide range of issues, which all contribute to our understanding of modern Afghanistan. Topics range from the features of protracted conflict to the future of Afghan music. PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR AFGHAN STUDIES
Contributers include: ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI, ALESSANDRO MONSUTTI, MAJ-GEN. CHARLES VYVYAN AND, JOHN BAILY
CERI OEPPEN completed her doctoral studies at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex. Her research includes migrant transnationalism and integration, and migrants’ involvement in development. ANGELA SCHLENKOFF completed her doctoral research at the University of Kent looking at issues of home and identity among Afghans living in London, where she has worked for various Afghan community and refugee organisations. PUB DATE
June 2010
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£20.00
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PILGRIMS OF LOVE
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF A GLOBAL SUFI CULT PNINA WERBNER ‘ . . . will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion.’ — Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to Britain, Europe, the Middle East, and southern Africa. Drawing on twelve years of fieldwork in Pakistan, she elucidates the complex organization of Sufi orders as regional and transnational cults, and examines how such cults are manifested through ritual action and embodied in sacred mythology and global diasporas. PUB DATE 2004
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Islamic Studies
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ISBN 978-1-85065-651-7
LANGUAGES OF BELONGING
ISLAM, REGIONAL IDENTITY, AND THE MAKING OF KASHMIR CHITRALEKHA ZUTSHI ‘Outstanding. Based on massive archival research in Delhi, Jammu and Srinagar, it skillfully uncovers the religious sensibilities that underlay the formation of Kashmir’s regional identity in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century... Languages of Belonging will light up new ways of understanding the formation of identities in South Asia’s regions.’ — Sugata Bose, Harvard University PUB DATE 2004
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Asian History
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ISBN 978-1-85065-700-2
HINDU RULERS, MUSLIM SUBJECTS: ISLAM, RIGHTS, AND THE HISTORY OF KASHMIR MRIDU RAI
‘This is a major contribution to Kashmir studies and should set the standard for the next generation of publications on Kashmir. Challenging the existing literature, this work is heady and fresh and deserves attention.’ — Alexander Evans, King’s College London and the RIIA
PUB DATE 2004
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Asian History
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£19.95
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ISBN 978-1-85065-701-9
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BANGLADESH AND PAKISTAN FLIRTING WITH FAILURE IN SOUTH ASIA WILLIAM B. MILAM
Bangladesh
and
Pakistan Flirting with Failure in South Asia
William B. Milam
WILLIAM B. MILAM, formerly the US Ambassador to both Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He retired from the US Foreign Service at the end of July 2001.
‘Milam’s book is not only eminently readable, but also a most timely reminder of the volatile atmosphere in two significant states of South Asia. In Milam’s view, “like a thorn in the foot, Islamism is an unnatural addition to the Bangladeshi polity that can be easily removed when governments become more efficient and effective.” However, in Pakistan, if the ambiguity of the army towards the jihadists “persists under the civilian government now in charge, Pakistan may become, before the war on terror ends, part of the terrorist problem instead of part of the solution.”’ — The Book Review ‘Milam has written an extremely valuable book. The clarity of his writing, the comprehensiveness of his coverage, and the underlying terms of his argument make this book essential for anyone with an interest in South Asian politics. As a teaching tool, this book is indispensable, every scholar responsible for a course on modern South Asian history, and modern South Asian politics, should have a copy.’ — Matthew J. Nelson, School of Oriental and African Studies This book is a sympathetic, frank and nuanced account of the political, social and economic trajectories of Bangladesh and Pakistan since they separated in 1971, by an author who served as US ambassador to both countries. It draws also on William Milam’s continuing close monitoring of the evolution of Bangladesh and Pakistan in subsequent years, and his research into their histories and cultures.
Published in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series PUB DATE 2009
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Asian History
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PRICE £50.00 £16.99
ISBN 978-1-85065-920-4 978-1-85065-921-1
PAKISTAN: A MODERN HISTORY IAN TALBOT
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
‘A first rate history . . . each new telling of the Pakistan story inevitably throws up new insights . . . this book is replete with them . . . an objective and positive assessment. The most up to date single volume account of Pakistan.’ — Friday Times, Lahore ’Bound to become a standard reference among the watchers of South Asia.’ — Publishers Weekly ’Essential reading for scholars and students seeking an informed narrative of Pakistani political history.’ — Journal of Asian Studies This book fills the need for a broad, historically sophisticated understanding of Pakistan, a country which is understood by many in the West only in terms of stereotypes—the fanatical, authoritarian and reactionary ‘other’ which is unfavourably compared to a tolerant, democratic and progressive India. Pakistan is in reality a complex plural society, which although greatly shaped by the colonial inheritance and circumstances of its birth, is also experiencing rapid change. Talbot’s approach breaks down stereotypes and assists in answering the vexed question of why democracy has succeeded in India, while Pakistan has been subject to long periods of authoritarianism during its five decades of existence. He brings the story of Pakistan right up to date and discusses the rise of jihadi militancy, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the resilience of its people in the face of military dictatorship and economic hardship.
IAN TALBOT , Professor of History at Southampton University, is one of Europe’s leading historians of South Asia, and the author of many books on the sub-continent. PUB DATE 2009
EXTENT 544pp
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Asian History
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ISBN 978-1-85065-989-1
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ISLAMIST NETWORKS
THE AFGHAN-PAKISTAN CONNECTION MARIAM ABOU ZAHAB AND OLIVIER ROY ‘This book excels at detailing the mechanics of Islamist movements, and rightly focuses on Pakistan as a state of concern. Rich in data and facts, it is commendable in drawing together the various under-reported strings and details of an increasingly violent Islamist movement.’ — RUSI Journal Al Qaeda was unable to flex its muscles until it found sanctuary in Afghanistan. But why was its sanctuary not attacked before September 2001, in particular after the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998? Abou Zahab and Roy argue that this was because the Taliban was only part of a much wider radical Islamic network in the region, whose true centre was Pakistan, not Afghanistan. Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Pakistani Deobandis, the IMU of Uzbekistan—all these groups are based in Pakistan, which served, and serves, as the regional hub for Islamist movements and their terrorist offshoots. What is the history of this phenomenon? Above all, given their divergent histories and doctrinal rifts, how were these disparate Islamist movements slowly coordinated with the aim of attacking what became their common adversary, the United States? This book investigates and explains the gestation over almost 25-years of these interlinked radical Islamist networks of Pakistan, Central Asia and Afghanistan, including the support they have received from Pakistan’s Inter-Services-Intelligence agency (ISI) . MARIAM ABOU ZAHAB , a specialist on Pakistan, is director of studies at INALCO , Paris. OLIVIER ROY , a researcher at CERI in Paris, is a world authority on Islam and politics. His books include Globalised Islam (Hurst, 2009) and The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East (Hurst, 2008). His latest book, Holy Ignorance, will be published by Hurst in June 2010 PUB DATE 2004
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EXTENT 144pp
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Terrorism Armed Struggle
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ISBN 978-1-85065-704-0
SHOPPING FOR BOMBS
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION, GLOBAL INSECURITY AND THE RISE AND FALL OF THE A.Q. KHAN NETWORK GORDON CORERA ‘Gordon Corera has written a book you will not be able to put down. It reads like a thriller, but it is true! He has done an impressive job in researching and describing the extraordinary threat we face from nuclear weapons falling into the hands of those who wish us harm.’ — Professor Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University ‘A superb account of how A.Q. Khan, the pioneer of nuclear black marketeering, exploited the forces of globalisation and loopholes in the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty to provide what IAEA Secret‑ ary-General, Mohamed El-Baradei, called the“WalMart of private sector proliferation”.‘ — Professor Graham Allison, Harvard University ‘Shopping for Bombs is a clearly written and fascinating account of one of the most important episodes in the history of weapons of mass destruction—Pakistan’s illicit and successful effort to build nuclear weapons and then to spread nuclear materials across the globe, an effort spearheaded by the maverick scientist A.Q. Khan. Corera has produced an even-handed and absorbing history of that important story.’ — Peter Bergen, author of the Osama bin Laden I Know and Holy War, Inc. Shopping for Bombs presents the first detailed account of the emergence of Pakistan’s nuclear hero A.Q. Khan as the world’s leading black market salesman of nuclear weapons technology. It reveals the inside story of how he sold the most dangerous technology in the world to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
GORDON CORERA is Security Correspondent for the BBC in London. PUB DATE 2006
EXTENT 304pp
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Politics Intl. Relations
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ISBN 978-1-85065-826-9
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IN THE SHADOW OF SHARI‘AH
ISLAM, ISLAMIC LAW, AND DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN MATTHEW J. NELSON Matthew J. Nelson
In the Shadow of Islam, Islamic Law, and Democracy in Pakistan
‘This is a brilliant book, a major achievement of research, scholarship and understanding. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history and politics of Pakistan.’ — Professor Francis Robinson, CBE, editor, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Islam Recent events in Pakistan and more widely in the Islamic world have sparked an unprecedented level of interest in the relationship between Islam and democracy. Studies of Islamic law (shari’ah) lie at the very centre of this trend, but carefully researched studies of Islamic law as it actually unfolds ‘on the ground’ remain extremely rare. This book promises to fill this gap, using a detailed study of Islamic law in Pakistan to show exactly how the relationship between Islam, Islamic law, and democracy is understood, acted upon, and potentially transformed in different cultural contexts. In the Shadow of Shari‘ah reveals that Islam and democracy are neither compatible nor incompatible in any permanent sense; they simply become more or less compatible owing to the historically embedded choices of individual Muslims regarding specific approaches to the terms of Islamic law.
MATTHEW J. NELSON is Lecturer in Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. PUB DATE
August 2010
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EXTENT 320pp
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Politics Islamic Studies
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FRAGMENTS OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER MAGNUS MARSDEN AND BENJAMIN D. HOPKINS
Despite the long and intimate history of engagement along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan’s North-West, this area and its relationship to the world remains poorly understood in the West’s popular imagination. Through the construction of a collage of historical narratives and intense ethnographic encounters, Marsden and Hopkins argue that the simplistic stereotypes and tropes that all too often masquerade as knowledge about the Frontier not only conceal a more complex reality, but are also a source of the problems that local and international actors alike face there. Not some simple isolated depot of radical terrorists or instrumental tribesmen, the Frontier is a space of richly textured meaning, constructed through a history of movement of its inhabitants and their understanding of the world beyond. Fragments of the Afghan Frontier offers a corrective to simplistic understanding both of the region’s history and its current realities, leaving the reader with a deeper understanding of the ever-evolving complexity of this globally significant region. Contents Introduction One: The Problem with Borders Two: Baluchistan and Sandeman Three: Sitana and Swat: Patterns of Revolt Along the Frontier Four: The past becomes present Five: A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan Six: Transnational life in northern Pakistan Seven: Return to Afghanistan and Beyond Epilogue
PUB DATE June 2010
EXTENT 288pp
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Fragments
Frontier Benjamin Hopkins | Magnus Marsden
MAGNUS MARSDEN is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has spent 15 years conducting research in both Afghanistan and Pakistan and is the author of Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier. BENJAMIN D. HOPKINS is an Assistant Professor in History and International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington DC and a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Making of Modern Afghanistan.
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History Anthropology
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FRONTIER OF FAITH
ISLAM IN THE INDO-AFGHAN BORDERLAND SANA HAROON ‘. . . an ambitious attempt to draw on different disciplines and different sources of information to illuminate the history of the tribal territories of the North West Frontier. ... a stimulating mixture of history and anthropology.’ — Dr David Page, author, Prelude to Partition: The Indian Muslims and the Imperial System of Control, 1920–1932 ‘Haroon offers a fascinating street-level view of frontier life and politics.’ — Basharat Peer, The Nation Frontier of Faith examines the history of Islam —especially that of local mullahs—in the NorthWest Frontier. A largely autonomous zone straddling the boundary of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Tribal Areas was established as a strategic buffer zone for British India, and the resulting autonomy allowed local mullahs to assume roles of tremendous power. After Partition in 1947, the Tribal Areas maintained its status as an autonomous region, and for the next fifty years the mullahs supported armed mobilizations in exchange for protection of their vested interests in regional freedom. Consequently the Frontier has become the hinterland of successive, contradictory jihads in support of Pashtun ethnicism, anti-colonial nationalism, Pakistani territorialism, religious revivalism, Afghan anti-Soviet resistance, and anti-Americanism. Considering this territory is said to be the current hiding place of Osama bin Laden, there couldn’t be a better time for a sourcebook detailing the intricacies of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands today and the function of the mullahs and their allies.
SANA HAROON (PhD, SOAS ) teaches at the University of Karachi. She held the Past and Present post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London, in 2004–05. PUB DATE 2007
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EXTENT 272pp
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Asian History
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ISLAM AND THE AHMADIYYA JAMA’AT HISTORY, BELIEF, PRACTICE SIMON ROSS VALENTINE
‘Valentine’s work may be considered the most reliable introduction to the Ahmadiyya currently available . . . Highly recommended.’ — Choice ‘The Ahmadiyya Jama’at is a very personal book, written from the position of a participant observer. It is the first accessible study of this Muslim community and is comprehensive in its coverage of their history, beliefs, and current existence. Simon Ross Valentine offers an inside view that will be of value to non-Muslims working with Muslims, and it is a view given with great respect.’ — Francis Robinson, University of London Simon Ross Valentine has written the first scholarly evaluation of the teachings, beliefs, and lifestyle of the Ahmaddiya Jama’at, an Islamic reform group founded in nineteenth-century India that currently boasts millions of followers worldwide. To the great aggravation of other Muslims, the Ahmadis assert that prophets existed after Muhammad, a controversial belief that has led to fierce persecution, especially in South Asia, where the government has declared the Ahmadis to be non-Muslims. Valentine explores other major claims made by the Ahmadis, including their assertion that Jesus, instead of dying on the cross (as Christians believe) or ascending to heaven after the crucifixion (as mainstream Muslims teach), in fact escaped from the Romans and settled in Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir and the alleged location of Christ’s tomb. After an account of the life of the movement’s founder, Ghulam Mirza Ahmad, Valentine discusses the history of the Ahmadis, their proselytization strategies, the role of mosques and madrasas, the position of women within the religion, and the Ahmadis’ doctrine of a peaceful jihad. SIMON ROSS VALENTINE is a lecturer in religious studies at Bradford University. PUB DATE 2008
EXTENT 288pp
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Islamic Studies
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THE PAKISTAN-US CONUNDRUM JIHADISTS, THE MILITARY AND THE PEOPLE—THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL YUNAS SAMAD
The
Pakistan-Us ConUndrUm
Jihadists, military and the People -the struggle for Control Yunas samad
Yunas Samad’s trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan features five main players: the people, the army, the Islamists, the politicians and the Americans. He explains how a series of alliances borne of political and strategic expediency have continually undermined the state to the extent that its very existence is now in jeopardy. Much of the country is now under the de facto control of an indigenous, ‘Pakistani’, Taliban yet even in this parlous situation Pakistan’s military and intelligence apparatus continue to be obsessed with waging a proxy war against India, whether in Kashmir or Afghanistan, at the expense of their own state’s stability. Such high- stakes contests for strategic and political power have also harmed Pakistan’s economy, argues Samad, impoverishing many of its people while the military ‘state within a state elite’ benefits from American largesse and a tiny business elite enjoys the rich pickings of the of neo-liberal policies enacted at the behest of international agencies. In conclusion Samad returns to his key themes: explaining how ordinary Pakistanis have been ignored by the country’s military and civilian rulers, how their material circumstances have steadily deteriorated over the last twenty or more years and how grand strategic designs fashioned in Islamabad and Washington continue to undermine political life and have ushered in forms of Islamist and sectarian politics that hitherto were largely unknown.
YUNAS SAMAD is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bradford and author of Nation in Turmoil: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan 1937-58, and co-author, with Gyan Pandey, of Faultlines of Nationhood. PUB DATE
September 2010
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EXTENT 256pp
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Intl. Relations
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INSIDE THE GLOBAL JIHAD
HOW I INFILTRATED AL QAEDA AND WAS ABANDONED BY WESTERN INTELLIGENCE OMAR NASIRI ‘Reads like a John le Carré novel.’ — International Herald Tribune ‘A terrific book. Omar Nasiri offers a groundbreaking account of the process by which young men became mujahidin. His description of life inside the Afghan training camps is more complete than any intelligence we had available to us in the 1990s. It indicates a level of professionalism within the camps that we were only able to infer from the fragmentary accounts available to us —and which policymakers dismissed at the time as CIA scare-mongering.’ — Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden Unit and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror ‘A chillingly detailed portrait of life inside the Afghan training camps. Omar Nasiri’s memoir offers a unique insider’s perspective on the crucial years during which a loosely connected group of regional Islamist movements coalesced into Al Qaeda’s global jihad.’— Ahmed Rashid, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller, Taliban Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe’s top foreign intelligence services—including France’s DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), and Britain’s MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in Belgium, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, he risked his life to defeat the emerging global network that the West would come to know as Al Qaeda. This is the remarkable true story—attested by specialists in international espionage and security—of the man who infiltrated Al Qaeda in Europe, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
PUB DATE 2006
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OMAR
N ASIR I
INSIDE THE GLOBAL JIHAD How I Infiltrated Al Qaeda and Was Abandoned by Western Intelligence
GORDON CORERA , the BBC ’s security corre spondent, provides an introduction to Omar Nasiri’s memoir.
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Terrorism
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INDEX
Accidental Guerrilla, The 7 Bangladesh and Pakistan 14 Beyond the Wild Tribes 12 Corera, Gordon 17 Counteringsurgency 6 Decoding the New Taliban 3 Devji, Faisal 8,9 Dorronsoro, Gilles 10 Empires of Mud 2 Fragments of the Afghan Frontier 19 Frontier of Faith 20 Giustozzi, Antonio 2–4 Haroon, Sana 20 Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects 13 Hopkins, Benjamin D. 19 Inside the Global Jihad 23 Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama’at 21 Islamist Networks 16 Kilkullen, David 6,7 Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop 4 Landscapes of the Jihad 8 Languages of Belonging 13 Making Sense of Pakistan 5 Maley, William 10 Marsden, Magnus 19 Milam, William B. 14
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My Life With the Taliban 1 Nasiri, Omar 23 Nelson, Matthew J. 18 Oeppen, Ceri 12 Pakistan a Modern History 15 Pakistan-US Conundrum, The 22 Pilgrims of Love 13 Rai, Mridu 13 Rescuing Afghanistan 10 Revolution Unending 10 Roy, Olivier 16 Samad Yunas 22 Schlenkoff, Angela 12 Shadow of Shari‘ah, In the 18 Shaikh, Farzana 5 Shopping for Bombs 17 Storming the World’s Stage 11 Talbot, Ian 15 Tankel, Stephen 11 Terrorist in Search of Humanity, The 9 Valentine, Simon Ross 21 Werbner, Pnina 13 Zaeef, Abdul Salam 1 Zahab, Mariam Abou 16 Zutshi, Chitralekha 13
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