The Taliban Sources Project - Incite at Columbia University
The Taliban Sources Project
- Team Anand Gopal Alex Strick van Linschoten Felix Kuehn
- Funded by Thesigers
In 2017, the three researchers released the article “Ideology in the Afghan Taliban” that examined the documents and concluded that the Afghan Taliban’s ideology is a) the result of a sophisticated internal logic that has changed in subtle but important ways over the years, b) the origins of the Taliban’s ideology lie in the southern Pashtun village, not the Pakistani refugee camp, and 3) their thinking is heavily infused with Sufism.
Incite provided administrative support to Gopal through a two-year grant from Thesigers.
Related Works
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Anand Gopal, Alex Strick-Van-Linschoten, "Afghanistan Analysts Network: Ideology in the Afghan Taliban", Afghanistan Analysis Network, June 29, 2017
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Anand Gopal, "National Book Award Finalist", National Book Foundation, August 7, 2014
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