艾哈迈德·拉希德（Ahmed Rashid），巴基斯坦人，主要关注巴基斯坦、阿富汗和中亚地区的地缘政治。国际媒体称他为“巴基斯坦最佳和最勇敢的记者”。美国华盛顿邮报、国际先驱论坛报，英国每日电讯报评价他是一个超过20年的远东经济评论记者。

An introduction to the Taliban history and the Islam extremism in Asia. The book talked about how the Taliban grew up, and why they fell. But now the Taliban still exist, and it seems that there is a long time before they finally die out. The book also talked about the other big states' role in Central Asia, and what they did finally had an enormous effect on the Afghanistan wa...(展开全部)

How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these questions. Arguing that the sustained Soviet assault on Islam destroyed patterns ...(展开全部)

Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated und...(展开全部)

Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated und...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

Timur (or Tamerlane) is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. His reputation lived on in his native lands and reappeared some three centuries after his death in the form of fictional biographies, authored anonymously in Persian and Turkic. These biographies have become part of popular culture. Despite a dir...(展开全部)

Timur (or Tamerlane) is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. His reputation lived on in his native lands and reappeared some three centuries after his death in the form of fictional biographies, authored anonymously in Persian and Turkic. These biographies have become part of popular culture. Despite a dir...(展开全部)

乔治·寇松（乔治·纳撒尼尔·寇松，George Nathaniel Curzon，1859—1925），英国著名保守党政治家和学者，曾任印度总督、外交大臣。1859年出生于英国的贵族家庭，早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学巴利奥尔学院，在牛津大学求学时对英国的中亚和印度事务表现出了浓厚的兴趣。1885年毕业后加入保守党担任索尔兹伯里的秘书，1886年当选保守党的下议院议员，1887年以议员身份游历考察中亚、波斯（今伊朗）、阿富汗、印度、东南亚和俄国和中国，谙熟亚洲历史文化。1891—1892年任印度事务次官，1895—1898年任外交次官，1899年擢任英属印度总督（年仅40岁），任期间实行高压统治，组织觐见大典，推行《大学法》，设置西北边境省，出兵西藏，分割孟加拉，一系列举措致使英印矛盾激化，导致印度人民反英斗争爆发，终于1905年辞职回国。1907年出...(展开全部)