Islamic Networks: The Pakistan-Afghan Connection |
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Mariam Abou Zahab; Olivier Roy
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Pages: 144 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1850657041
Pub: C. Hurst & Co
Pub date: 2004-04-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 166463
Reader Reviews:
A very useful tool for researchers (1/1 people found this helpful)
"Islamic Networks" by Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy is a useful tool to understand the complexity of the Afghan-Pakistan Jihadism. May be you get lost in the midst of the huge amount of acronyms, movements, and individuals you will meet in its pages. Nonetheless this book shows very clearly the complex dynamics at play in Pakistan and beyond: its most valuable asset. Unfortunately, some predictions made by the authors before 2004 proved too much optimistic, especially when relating to the supposed total defeat suffered by the Taliban in 2001. An assessment to revise. But the whole picture emerging from this book is impressive. Zahab and Roy prove how the problems Musharraf is facing today are still the same he had to deal with since September 11th and his choice to side with US in the Global War on Terror. I recommend it for a reading, eventually together with "Frontline Pakistan", by Zahid Hussain.
Germano Dottori
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