Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

{{Short description|2000 book by Ahmed Rashid}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}

{{Use Pakistani English|date=June 2023}}

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| author = Ahmed Rashid

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| country = U.S.A.

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| subject = Taliban.

Islamic fundamentalism--Afghanistan.

Islam and state--Afghanistan.

Islam and politics--Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Politics and government--1973-

| genre = Nonfiction

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| publisher = Yale University Press

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| pub_date = 2000, 2010, 2022

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| awards = New York Times bestseller

| isbn = 9780300083408

| isbn_note = 9780300163681

| oclc = 751430506

| dewey = 958.104

| congress = DS371.2 .R367 2000

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| website = [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300163681/taliban/ Yale University Press]

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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia is an historical book written by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid and published in 2000.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/26/books/books-of-the-times-how-the-taliban-got-their-way-in-afghanistan.html? | title=Books of the Times; How the Taliban Got Their Way in Afghanistan | newspaper=The New York Times | date=26 April 2000 | last1=Bernstein | first1=Richard }}{{cite journal | jstor=20049858 | last1=Brown | first1=L. Carl | title=Reviewed work: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid | journal=Foreign Affairs | year=2000 | volume=79 | issue=4 | pages=159–160 | doi=10.2307/20049858 }}{{cite journal | jstor=4311516 | last1=Rubin | first1=Michael | title=Reviewed work: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid | journal=Iranian Studies | year=2003 | volume=36 | issue=1 | pages=153–157 | doi=10.1017/S0021086200001481 | s2cid=245660474 }}