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The Afghan crisis has grabbed the attention of the entire world, and underlined the desperate need in the West for a better understanding of the region and its challenges in the face of increasingly militant interpretations of Islam. Carved up and fought over by the British and Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth century, and under Soviet domination for much of the twentieth, the lonely passes, deserts and peoples of the five Central Asian republics have remained shrouded in obscurity. Even Afghanistan, the site of almost constant conflict since the Soviet invasion of 1978, is little known beyond the media images of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement. Martin McCauley draws on his vast knowledge of the region and its history to provide a clear and highly readable account of Afghanistan and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tasikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, from their medieval pasts to the unpredictable present. Illuminating languages and landscapes, cultures and society, he examines the rise of militant Islam and its impact on the region, the push and pull of global economics and politics, and possibilities for stability in an inherently unstable part of the world.
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INDEX
Abdur Rahman Khan, 6–7
Adolat, 108
Afghanistan, xi, 1–20, 59–61, 65, 71, 77–88, 115–18
Agriculture, 3, 37, 60, 116–17
Akaev, Askar, xi, 54, 103–4
Al-Banshiri, Abu Ubaidah, 85
Al-Qaeda, vii, xi, xvi, 82–8, 121, 124
Al-Zawahari, Ayman, 84–5
Alexander the Great, 5
Algeria, 85
Almaty, 51, 62, 123
Amanullah, 8–9
America (see also United States), xvi–xvii
Amin, Hafizullah, 14–16
Amu Darya, 22, 26, 41, 73
Andropov, Yury, 48
Aral Sea, 75–6
Ashgabat, 56–7, 68–72
Astana, 62
Atef, Mohammad, 85
Ayatollah, vii
Azerbaijan, 67, 85, 94
Azzam, Abdullah, 82
Badakhshan, 66, 75
Bakhchiserai, 25
Baku, 94
Balkans, 85
Baltic States, 51
Baluchistan, 11
Bamiyan, 87
Bandits, roving, 27, 30
Baptists, 94
Bashkirs, 93
Bashkortostan, 94
Basmachi, vii
Batken, 105–7, 113
Beijing, 24, 122
Belarus, 51
Bin Laden, Osama, xi, xvi, 82–8
Bolsheviks, vii, xii–xiii, 33–52
Brezhnev, Leonid, 16, 45, 48, 52
Britain, Great, xv, 6, 25, 82, 85, 116
and ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- GLOSSARY
- WHO’S WHO
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- MAPS
- ONE INTRODUCTION
- TWO THE ECONOMY: BIG BUCKS AND WHO GETS THEM?
- THREE ISLAM AND TERRORISM
- FOUR THE GREAT GAME: THE POWERS VIE FOR PRIMACY
- FIVE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 AND ALL THAT
- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING
- INDEX