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Edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi THE TALIBAN AND T H E C R I S I S O F A F G H A N I S T A N TALIBAN C R I S I S A F G H A N I S TA N THE TALIBAN AND T H E C R I S I S O F A F G H A N I S TA N Edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi HarvardUniversityPress Cambridge,Massachusetts•London,England Copyright©2008bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica FirstHarvardUniversityPresspaperbackedition,2009. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData TheTalibanandthecrisisofAfghanistan : / editedby RobertD.CrewsandAminTarzi. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-674-02690-2(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-0-674-03224-8(pbk.) 1.Taliban. 2.Afghanistan—History—1989–2001. 3.Afghanistan— History—2001– I.Crews,RobertD.,1970– II.Tarzi,Amin. DS371.3.T3542008 958.104′6—dc22 2007031807 CONTENTS Maps vii NoteonTransliteration ix Introduction 1 RobertD.CrewsandAminTarzi 1. ExplainingtheTaliban’sAbilitytoMobilizethePashtuns 59 AbdulkaderSinno 2. TheRiseandFalloftheTaliban 90 NeamatollahNojumi 3. TheTaliban,Women,andtheHegelianPrivateSphere 118 JuanR.I.Cole 4. TalibanandTalibanisminHistoricalPerspective 155 M.NazifShahrani 5. RememberingtheTaliban 182 LutzRzehak 6. Fraternity,Power,andTimeinCentralAsia 212 RobertL.Canfield vi Contents 7. ModerateTaliban? 238 RobertD.Crews 8. TheNeo-Taliban 274 AminTarzi Epilogue:AfghanistanandthePaxAmericana 311 AtiqSarwariandRobertD.Crews Notes 359 Contributors 419 Acknowledgments 421 Index 423 MAPS 1 TheProvincesofAfghanistan x 2 TalibanExpansion xi 3 PhysicalGeography 14 4 TheMajorEthnicGroupsofAfghanistan 16 NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION The editors have attempted to simplify transliteration of non-Latin terms and names for a general audience of nonspecialists. We have avoideddiacriticalmarks,exceptinafewpropernames,andadopted spellings commonly used in English—for example, “Abbas” instead À À of “Abbas,”“Masud”in place of Masud,”and “mullah”rather than “mulla.” Names in common usage have not been transliterated and are presented in a form familiar to readers of English, such as “HamidKarzai.”WhentermsofArabicoriginareusedinreference to Afghanistan, the Persian/Dari transliteration has been adopted, such as “mujahedin,” not “mujahidin” (and in cases where Iranian Persian and Dari differ in pronunciation, the Dari has been used). GiventhewidevariationinthespellingsofPakistanipartiesandor- ganizations,theeditorshavefollowedMuhammadAmirRana’sAto ZofJehadiOrganizationsinPakistan.
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