Supplemental reading for HISA 1501, “AfPak: Insurgency & Civil Society”
Abbas, Hassan. The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-
Afghanistan Frontier. New Haven: Yale, 2014.
Abou Zahab, Miriam, and Olivier Roy. Islamist Networks: the Afghan-Pakistan
Connection. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2004.
Ahmad, Aisha, and Roger Boase. Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier.
London: Saqi, 2008.
Ahmad, Manan. Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination.
Charlottesville: Just World Books, 2011.
Anwar, Raja. The Terrorist Prince: the Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto. Lahore:
Vanguard, 1998.
Aquil, Raziuddin. Sufism: Culture and Politics. Delhi: OUP, 2007.
Ayers, Alissa. Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan. CUP, 2009.
Barth, Fredrik. Political Leadership among Swat Pathans. London: Athlone Press, 1959.
Bashir, Shahzad, and Robert D. Crews. Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the
Afghanistn-Pakistan Borderlands. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012.
Burki, Shahid Javed. South Asia in the New World Order: the Role of Regional
Cooperation. Oxford: Routledge, 2011.
Casey, Ethan. Alive and Well in Pakistan: a Human Journey in a Dangerous Time.
London: Vision, 2004.
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Little America: the War Within the War for Afghanistan. New
York: Knopf, 2012.
Chayes, Sarah. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban. New
York: Penguin, 2006.
Coburn, Noah. Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town. Stanford
University Press, 2011.
Datla, Kavita. The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India.
University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
Devji, Faisal. Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity. Ithaca: Cornell
Univ. Press, 2005
_______________. Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea. Harvard U. Press, 2013.
______________. The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics.
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2008.
Entezar, Ehsan M. Afghanistan 101: Understanding Afghan Culture. ExLibris.com, 2007.
Ewing, Katherine Pratt. Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam.
Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1997.

Farwell, James. The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination, and Instability.
Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2011.
Gompert, David C., and John Gordon IV. War by other Means: Building Complete and
Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency. Santa Monica: Rand Corp., 2008.
Gopal, Anand. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War
Through Afghan Eyes. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.
Gul, Imtiaz. The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier. New York: Viking,2010.
Haqqani, Hussain. Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic
History of Misunderstanding. New York: Perseus, 2113.
___________________. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military. Washington D.C.:
Carnegie, 2005.
Hussain, Zahid. Frontline Pakistan: the Struggle with Militant Islam. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2007.
Inskeep, Steve. Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi. New York: Penguin, 2011.
Isby, David. Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires: a New History of the Borderland.
New York: Pegasus Books, 2010
Jaffrelot, Christophe, ed. Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation? Delhi: Manohar, 2002.
Jalal, Ayesha. Democracy and Authoritanism in South Asia: a Comparative Historial
Perspective. Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
Jalal, Ayesha. The State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of
Defense. Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
Jones, Seth G. and C. Christine Fair, Counterinsurgency in Pakistan. Santa Monica: Rand
Corporation, 2010.
Jones, Seth. G. In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan. New York:
Norton, 2010.
Keiser, Lincoln. Friend by Day, Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani
Community. Mason, Ohio: Cengage, 2002.
Khan, Naveeda. Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2012.
Nawaz, Shuja. Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within. OUP, 2008.
Reidel, Bruce. What We Won: America’s Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979-89.
Ricks, Thomas E. The Generals: American Military Command from WWII to Today.
New York: Penguin, 2012.
Rosehnal, Robert. Islamic Sufism Unbound: Politics and Piety in Twenty-First-Century
Pakistan

Rubin, Barnett. Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the
International System. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2002.
Saikal, Amin. Modern Afghanistan: a History of Struggle and Survival. London: I.B.
Taurus, 2004.
Schmindle, Nicholas. To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan.
New York: Henry Holt, 2009.
Schuer, Michael (“Anonymous”). Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on
Terror. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2004.
Sevea, Iqbal Singh. The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism
In Late Colonial India. CUP, 2013.
Sinno, Abdulkader H. Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2008.
Smith, Graeme. The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan. Toronto:
Knopf Canada, 2013.
Stewart, Rory. The Places in Between. Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
Tahir, Madiha R., Qalandar Bux Memon and Vijay Prashad, eds., Dispatches from
Pakistan. New Delhi: LeftWord, 2012.
Talbot, Ian. Pakistan: a Modern History. New York: Martin’s Press, 1998.
Tanweer, Bilal. The Scatter Here is Too Great. Noida: Random House India, 2013
Tudor, Maya. The Promise of Power: the Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in
Pakistan. CUP, 2013.
Tyson, Ann Scott. American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of
Special Forces Major Jim Grant. New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
Ullah, Haroon K. The Bargain from the Bazaar: a Family’s Day of Reckoning in Lahore.
New York: Public Affairs, 2014.
Ullah, Haroon K. Vying for Allah’s Vote: Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence, and Extremism in Pakistan. Washington, D..C.: Goergetown U. Press, 2014.
Van Linschoten, Alex Struck, and Felis Kuehn, eds. Poetry of the Taliban. New York:
Columbia University Press 2012.
____________________________________________________. An Enemy We Created: the Myth
of the Taliban al-Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan. New York: OUP, 2012.
Weiss, Anita, and Saba Gul Khattak, eds. Development Challenges Confronting
Pakistan.
Sterling, VA.: Kumarian Press, 2013.
West, Bing. The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan. New York:
Random House, Digital, Inc., 2012.
Woodward, Bob. Obama’s Wars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.