CENTRAL ASIAN SURVEY Volume 20 Number 4 December 2001

CENTRAL ASIAN SURVEY Volume 20 Number 4 December 2001 Contents
Focus on Afghanistan
Perverting Islam: Taliban social policy toward women Larry P. Goodson	415 – 426
Radical political movements in Afghanistan and their politics of peoples' empowerment and liberation Hafizullah Emadi	427 – 450
Political Islam in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan Shahram Akbarzadeh	451 – 465
Gender and ethnicity in the 'transitional democracy' of Kyrgyzstan Lori M. Handrahan
The Jungar Tuvas: language and national identity in the PRC Talant Mawkanuli	497 – 517
On merchants and monsters: common motifs in tales from medieval China and 19th-century Bukhara Siamak Adhami	519 – 527