Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 976
Trim: 7 x 10
978-1-5381-4928-7 • Hardback • May 2021 • $350.00 • (£269.00)
978-1-5381-4929-4 • eBook • May 2021 • $332.50 • (£258.00) (coming soon)
Thomas H. Johnson is a research professor of the national security affairs department at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California) as well the director of the program for culture & conflict studies. For over three decades he has conducted research and published widely on Afghanistan and South Asia. His most recent book, Taliban Narratives: The Uses and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict was co-published by Oxford University Press and Hurst Publishers (London) in 2018.
Ludwig W. Adamec was professor at the University of Arizona and had served as the director of the Near Eastern Center for 10 years. He was widely known as a leading authority on Afghanistan and the author of 24 volumes and numerous articles and monographs, including the Historical Dictionary of Islam, Second Edition (Scarecrow, 2009) and Historical Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions, and Insurgencies (Scarecrow, 2005).
Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff
Preface Thomas Johnson
Reader’s Notes
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendixes
- Major Sections of the Durand Agreement and the Legal Case for the Durand Line
- Taliban Codex, Book of Rules for the Mujahedin (Layeha)
- Political Parties Law
- Licensed Political Parties
- Durrani Genealogy
- Bonn Accords
- Fatwas from Pashtun Perspectives
- Full Text of US-Taliban Peace Agreement
- Shajara of the Pashtun and Pashtun Major Tribes and Clans
Bibliography
About the Authors