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...Thomas Barfield The Afghanistan Wars . By William Maley . Basingstoke, Hants and New York : Palgrave , 2002 . ix , 340 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). The March of Folly in Afghanistan, 1978–2001 . By Jagat S. Mehta . New Delhi : Manohar , 2002 . 224 pp. $29.50 (cloth...

...Louis Dupree Badakhshan, Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan, Volume I: Badakhshan rovince and Northeastern Afghanistan . Edited by Ludwig W. Adamec . Graz, Austria : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt , 1972 . xiii, 255 pp. Glossary, Index, Map Section. $15.50...

...Ghulam J. Arez Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919–1929 . By Leon B. Poullada . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1973 . xvii, 318 pp. Maps, Tables, Index. $14.50. Afghanistan: Political Modernization of a Mountain-Kingdom . By Balwant Bhaneja . New Delhi : Spectra...

...Freeland K. Abbott Horned Moon: An Account of a Journey through Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan . By Ian Stephens . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1955 . ix, 288 . Plates, Appendices, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 638 FAR...

...Barnett R. Rubin The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad . By Antonio Giustozzi . London : Hurst , 2018 . xx, 292 pp. ISBN: 9781849049641 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 It is hard to review...

...Robert L. Canfield Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan . By G. Whitney Azoy . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania , 1982 . xi, 143 pp. Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 174 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES voice explaining some cultural item...

...Thomas Perry Thornton Roots of Confrontation in South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and the Superpowers . By Stanley Wolpert . New York : Oxford University Press , 1982 . viii, 200 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $14.95. Der Indische Ozean: Konfliktregion oder “zone des...

...David B. Edwards Abstract G ulbuddin hekmatyar made the above statement in a speech to Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, in the early 1980s. As the leader ( amīr ) of Hizb-i Islami Afghanistan (the Islamic Party of Afghanistan), one of the principal Islamic parties then fighting to overthrow...

...Charles Capwell Music of Afghanistan: Professional Musicians in the City of Herat . By John Baily . Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology. New York : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 896...

...Richard S. Newell Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan . By Olivier Roy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . vi, 253 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 406 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES philosophy and science proper (e.g...

...Richard N. Frye The Archaeology of Afghanistan: From Earliest Times to the Timurid Period . Edited by F. R. Allchin and Norman Hammond . London : Academic Press , 1978 . xxiii, 451 pp. Bibliography, Subject Index. £30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981...

...Akbar S. Ahmed Abstract The four books reviewed are different in discipline and approach and written for widely different audiences. They are, however, linked in their articulation as a contemporary response to the larger political situation in and around Afghanistan. Certain fundamental issues...

...Iraj Bashiri War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet . By Eric S. Margolis . New York : Routledge , 2001 . v , 272 pp. $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS INNER ASIA 721 War at the Top...

...Thomas Perry Thornton Demokraticheskaya Respublika Afganistan–Spravochnik . [The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan–A Handbook]. Edited by M. R. Arunova Moscow : Nauka , 1981 . 175 pp. Maps, Tables. 0.40 ruble. Afghanistan: Past and Present . Edited by E. Shchepilova Moscow...

...Robert L. Canfield Afghan Nomads: Caravans, Conflicts and Trade in Afghanistan and British India 1800–1980 . By Klaus Ferdinand . Copenhagen : Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers , 2006 . 1 pp. DKK 330.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...Vartan Gregorian Afghanistan: Highway of Conquest . By Arnold Fletcher . Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press , 1965 . 325 pp. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 541 able balance which Russia attained in her Persian trade...

...James O. Caswell Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Ancient Art from Afghanistan: Treasures of the Kabul Museum . By Benjamin Rowland Jr. New York : The Asia Society, Inc. , 1966 . 144 pp. Plates, Bibliography, n.p. 750 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Ainslie T. Embree India and Afghanistan, 1876–1907. A Study in Diplomatic Relations . By D. P. Singhal . St. Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press , 1963 . xii , 216 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968...

...Donald N. Wilber Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Afghanistan . By John C. Griffiths , with a historical note by Sir Olaf Caroe. New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1967 . xi , 179 pp. Maps, Appendices, References, Short Reading List, Index. $5.00. BOOK...

...Senzil Nawid Afghanistan . By Louis Dupree . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1973 . xxiv, 760 pp. Maps, Charts, Bibliography. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 562 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES gives enormous power to any one in Kafiristan...