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)

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。

Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation―from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign―is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often...(展开全部)

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation―from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign―is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often...(展开全部)

Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.

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 Venture of Islam" has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic c...(展开全部)

查兰·奈米斯（Charlan Nemeth），美国加州大学伯克利分校心理学系教授，目前住在旧金山。