Reviewer: Christopher Boucek
Reviewer Title: Former managing editor of the Middle East Times (Cairo)
Publishing Info: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid. New York: Yale Nota Bene, 2000. 279 pages with notes, appendices and index. $14.95, paperback.
Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban, by William Maley, ed. London: Hurst & Company, 1998. 242 pages. $19.50, paperback.
The Taliban: War, Religion, and the New Order in Afghanistan, by Peter Marsden. New York: Zed Books Ltd., 1998. 153 pages. $19.95, paperback.
The Taliban Phenomenon: Afghanistan 1994-1997, by Kamal Matinuddin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 283 pages with notes, glossary and bibliography.
$20.00, hardcover.
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, by Jason Elliot. New York: Picador, 1999. 473 pages. $18.00, paperback.
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