The best book to understand the Taliban according to Mullah Omar

First Draft Publishing: "Obedience to the Amir" View this email in your browser "This book is the guide the Afghan Taliban used to organise themselves differently from other Afghan groups. Anyone who wants to defeat them or negotiate with them should understand the organisational principles that guide them." Barnett R. Rubin, New York University An insider's guide to how the Taliban govern First Draft Publishing's latest release is available now In the last year of the Taliban's government in Afghanistan, visitors to Mullah Omar's office in Kandahar received a parting gift. As they left, the movement's supreme leader asked them to take a slim volume from a pile beside the door. He told them that if they wanted to know how the Taliban were meant to behave, they should read the book. The books which Mullah Omar handed out were Pashto and Farsi translation of Eta't Amir, or 'Obedience to the Leader'. Mufti Rasheed published the original in Urdu after having toured Taliban-run Afghanistan. Mullah Omar's endorsement indicates that he believed that Rasheed had captured the essence of the Taliban Movement. Michael Semple and Yameema Mitha have translated this important primary source and added a commentary and appraisal. "In war, and especially guerrilla war, the best organised party is likely to win. While numbers of fighters and weapons count, organisation determines whether the leader can use them. This book is the guide the Afghan Taliban used to organise themselves differently from other Afghan groups. Anyone who wants to defeat them or negotiate with them should understand the organisational principles that guide them." -- Barnett R. Rubin, Center on International Cooperation, New York University Buy UK Kindle version Buy UK paperback version An Undesirable Element tells the fast-paced story of Afghanistan's former Higher Education minister and his struggle to ensure access across the country. For More Information... Kandahar Assassins is an oral history of mujahedeen operations inside Kandahar City during the 1980s war. For More Information... Buy US Kindle version Buy USA paperback version I Am Akbar Agha, the memoir of a Taliban insider, is also available for purchase in electronic and paperback formats. For More Information... Copyright © 2016 First Draft Publishing, All rights reserved. You're on this list because you either signed up on our website or were already connected somehow with the publishers. Our mailing address is: First Draft Publishing Gutzmann Strasse 10a Berlin 14165 Germany Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences