Table of Contents

Preface.

Introduction.

1 Past Encounters.

2 Bitter Icons and Ethnic Cleansing.

3 Islam and Terrorism.

4. The Taliban, the Bamiyan and Us -- the Islamic Other.

Notes.

References and Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

Jack Goody is Emeritus William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at St. Johns College, Cambridge.