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Author Rashid, Ahmed.

Title Jihad : the rise of militant Islam in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2002

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 MELB  958.0429 Ras/Jtr  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 284 pages : maps ; 22 cm
regular print
Contents 1. Introduction: Central Asia's Islamic Warriors -- Pt. 1. Islam and Politics in Central Asia, Past and Present -- 2. Conquerors and Saints: The Past as Present -- 3. Islam Underground in the Soviet Union -- 4. The First Decade of Independence -- Pt. 2. Islamic Movements in Central Asia Since 1991 -- 5. The Islamic Renaissance Party and the Civil War in Tajikistan -- 6. The Hizb ut-Tahrir: Reviving the Caliphate -- 7. Namangani and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan -- 8. Namangani and Jihad in Central Asia -- 9. The New Great Game? The United States, Russia, and China -- 10. Central Asia and Its Neighbors -- 11. An Uncertain Future -- App. The Call to Jihad by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Summary The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. The author turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan
Analysis Asia, Central
Islamic fundamentalism
Overseas item
Islam - Asia - History
Islam - 20th century
Notes "A World Policy Institute book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Islam and politics -- Asia, Central.
Jihad.
Islamic fundamentalism -- Asia, Central.
SUBJECT Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001932
Asia, Central -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001930
Author World Policy Institute.
LC no. 2001006898
ISBN 0300093454 :