Poetry of the Taliban / translated by Mirwais Rahmany & Hamid Stanikzai ; edited and introduced by Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix Kuehn ; preface by Faisal Devji.

“This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed”—cover page.

“Afghanistan has a rich and ancient tradition of epic poetry celebrating resistance to foreign invasion and occupation. This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project-uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed, and presenting to us for the first time the black turbaned Wilfred Owens of Wardak, but it is also an important political project : humanizing and giving voice to the aspirations, aesthetics, emotions and dreams of the fighters of a much-caricatured and still little understood resistance movement that…”—back cover.

“Includes bibliography”—(p. 243-247).

Contents: About the translations, editors and author of the preface (p. 8)—Acknowledgements (p. 10)—Preface by Faisal Devji (p. 11)—Introduction-Ghazi Portraits (p. 29)—The poems (p. 49)—Glossary of names and terms (p. 215)—Notes (p. 227)—Select bibliography (p. 243).