Sept. 11: Resources for Understanding

Afghanistan and the Taliban
The Middle East and Islamic Thought and Culture
Fundamentalism and Political Islam
Special populations: women, refugees
Terrorism and Bioterrorism

Looking Back: Reflections on Tragedy

9-11. Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories Press, 2001) HV 6432 .C44 2001

9-11 in American culture. Norman K. Denzin, ed. (AltaMira Press, 2003) HV 6432.7.A13 2003

After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City. Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, editors.(Routledge, 2002) NA 9127 .N5 A25 2002

The age of terror: America and the world after September 11. Edited by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda (Basic Books and Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2001) HV 6432 .A43 2001

America Confronts Terrorism: Understanding the Danger and How to Think about it: a Documentary Record. Edited by John Prados (Ivan R. Dee, 2002) HV 6432 .A52 2002

America embattled: September 11, anti-Americanism, and the global order. Richard Crockatt (Routledge, 2003) E902 .C76 2003

The BBC Reports: on America, its Allies and Enemies, and the Counterattack on Terrorism. Edited by Jenny Baxter and Malcolm Downing (Overlook Press, 2002) HV 6432 .B39 2002

Byte wars: the Impact of September 11 on Information Technology. Ed Yourdon (Prentice Hall PTR, 2002) TK 5105.59 .Y68

How did this happen: Terrorism and the New War. Edited by James F. Hoge, Jr. and Gideon Rose (PublicAffairs, 2001) HV 6432 .H69 2001

A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001. Edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel (Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002) HV 6432 .J87 2002

The new Pearl Harbor: disturbing questions about the Bush administration and 9/11. David Ray Griffin (Olive Branch, 2004) E902 .G75 2004

New York September 11. By Magnum photographers (PowerHouse Books, 2001) HV 6432 .N49 2001

Out of the ruins: a New York record; lower Manhattan, autumn 2001. Jean Holabird (Gingko Press, 2002) HV 6432 .H653 2002

Perspectives on 9/11. Yassin El-Ayouty, ed. (Praeger, 2004)  HV 6432 .7 .P47 2004

The politics of terror: the U.S. response to 9/11. William Crotty (Northeastern University Press, 2004) E902 .P65 2004

September 11, 2001: a Collection of Newspaper Front Pages. Selected by the Poynter Institute. (Andrews McMeel, 2001) HV 6432 .S458 2001

September 11: a testimony (Prentice Hall PTR, 2002) HV 6432 .S457 2002

September 11: an oral history. Compiled by Dean E. Murphy (Doubleday, 2002) HV 6432 .S454 2002

September 11 in history: a watershed moment? Mary L. Dudziak (Duke University Press, 2003) HV 6432 .7 .S45 2003

Trauma at home: after 9/11. Judith Greenberg, ed. (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)  HV 6432.7 .T83 2003

Two hours that shook the world: September 11, 2001; Causes and Consequences. Fred Halliday. (Saqi Books, 2002) HV 6432 .H35 2002

Understanding September 11. Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer, editors (New Press, 2002) HV 6432 .U5 2002

War on America: Seen from the Indian Ocean. James R. Mancham (Paragon House, 2001) E 169.12 .M23 2002

Afghanistan and the Taliban

Afghanistan: a new history. Martin Ewans (Curzon, 2001) DS 356 .E96 2001

Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982. Hasan Kakar (University of California Press, 1995) DS 371.2 .K35 1995

Afghanistan’s Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban. Larry P. Goodson (Univ. of Washington Press, 2001) Browsing DS 371.3 .G66 2001

Among the Afghans. Arthur Bonner (Duke Univ. Press, 1987) DS371.2 .B65 1987

The fragmentation of Afghanistan: state formation and collapse in the international system. Barnett R. Rubin (Yale Univ. Press, 1995) DS371.2 .R8 1995

The Hidden War: a Russian journalist's account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. Artyom Borovik (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990) DS371.2 .B67 1990

Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. Michael Griffin (Pluto Press, 2001) DS371.2 .G74 2001

The rise of the Taliban in Afganistan: mass mobilization, civil war, and the ruture of the region. Neamatollah Nojumi (Palgrave, 2002) DS371 .2 .N65 2002

The Search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state. Barnett R. Rubin (Yale Univ. Press, DS371.2 .R86 1995

Taliban: Islam, oil and the new great game in Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid (Tauris, 2000) DS371.3 .R37 2000

Taliban Phenomenon, Afghanistan 1994-1997. Kamal Matinuddin (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) DS 371.2 .M39 1999

The Taliban: War, Religion and the new order in Afghanistan. Peter Marsden (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998) DS371.2 .M37 1998

An Unexpected light: travels in Afghanistan. Jason Elliot (Picador, 1999) Browsing DS352 .E48 1999

War at the Top of the World: the Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet. Eric S. Margolis (Routledge, 2000) DS371.3 .M37 2000

War, Politics and Society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992. Antonio Giustozzi (Georgetown Univ. Press, 2000) DS 371 .2 .G59 2000

The Middle East and Islamic Thought and Culture

The Battle for God. Karen Armstrong (Knopf, 2000) BM390 .A69 2000

Covering Islam: How the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world. Edward W. Said (Vintage Books, 1997) BP52 .S24 1997

Good Muslim, bad Muslim: American, the Cold War, and the roots of terror. Mahmood Mamdani (Pantheon, 2004)

Islam: a Short History. Karen Armstrong (Modern Library, 2000) BP50 .A69 2000

Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. Olivier Roy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986) BP63.A54 R6813 1986

Islam and the West. Bernard Lewis (Oxford Univ. Press, 1993) DS63.2.E8 L47 1993

Islam, fundamentalism, and the betrayal of tradition; essays by Western Muslim scholars. Joseph E.B. Lumbard, ed. (World Wisdom, 2004) BP60 .I7848 2004

Islam in the World. Malise Ruthven (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) BP 161.2 .R87 2000b

Islam: Origin and Belief. Emory C. Bogle (University of Texas Press, 1998) BP 50 .B65 1998

Islam: the straight path; Islam interpreted by Muslims. Kenneth William Morgan (Ronald Press, 1958) BP161 .M63

Islamic activism: A social movement theory approach. Quintan Wiktorowicz, ed. (Indiana University Press, 2004) HN766. A8I85 2004

The Koran: A Very Short Introduction. Michael Cook (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) BP 130.4 .C66 2000

The Middle East: a brief history of the last 2,000 years. Bernard Lewis (Scribner, 1995) DS62 .L594 1995

A Muslim Primer. Ira G. Zepp (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2000) BP 161.2 .Z46 2000

Orientalism. Edward W. Said (Pantheon, 1978) DS12 .S24 1978

Al-Qur’an: A Contemporary Translation. Ahmed Ali (Princeton Univ. Press, 1988) BP 109 .A445 1986

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics. L. Carl Brown (Columbia Univ. Press, 2000) BP 173.6 .B76 2000

Fundamentalism and Political Islam

Between the State and Islam. Ed Charles E. Butterworth (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001) BP 173.6 .B47 2001

Bin Laden: the man who declared war on America. Yossef Bodansky (Forum, 1999) HV6430.B55 B63 1999

Fundamentalism reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban. Ed.William Maley (New York Univ. Press, 1998) DS371.3 .F86 1998.

Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Zlad Abu-Amr (Indiana Univ. Press, 1994) BP 63 .P32 W47413 1994

Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence. Bruce B. Lawrence (Princeton Univ. Press, 2000) BP 163 .L34 1998

Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East/. Ed. R. Scott Appleby (Univ. Chicago Press, 1997) BL 1060 .S67 1997

Special Populations

Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text. Anmina Wadud (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999) BP 134 .W6W28 1999

Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman’s Odyssey. Farooka Gauhari (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1996) DS 371.2 .G38 1996

Women of the Afghan War. Deborah Ellis (Praeger, 2000) HQ1735.6 .E45 2000

Terrorism and Bioterrorism

America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack . Richard A. Falkenrath et al. (MIT Press, 1998) HV6432 .F35 1998

The eleventh plague: the politics of biological and chemical warfare. Leonard A. Cole (W.H. Freeman, 1997) UG447.8 .C6523 1997

Fighting Bioterrorism. Lisa Yount, ed. (Greenhaven Press, 2004) HV 6432 .F54 2004

The gathering biological warfare storm. Jim A. Davis and Barry R. Schneider (Praeger, 2004) UG 447.8.G38 2004

The new jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of Terrorism. Simon Reeve (Andre Deutsch, 1999) HV6432 .R42 1999b

The new terror: facing the threat of biological and chemical weapons. ed. Sidney D. Drell et al. (Hoover Institution Press, 1999) UG447.8 .N48 1999

The new terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. Walter Laqueur (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999) HV6431 .L35 1999.

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Mark Juergensmeyer (Univ. of California Press, 2001) BL 65 .V55 J84 2000

Terrorism and America: a commonsense strategy for a democratic society. Philip B. Heymann (MIT Press, 1998) HV6432 .H49 1998

Terrorism and the media: from the Iran hostage crisis to the World Trade Center Bombing. Brigitte L. Nacos (Columbia Univ. Press, 1994) P96.T472 U66 1994

Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Paul R. Pillar (Brookings Institution Press, 2001) HV6431 .P56 2001

Terrorism, asymmetric warfare, and weapons of mass destruction: defending the U.S. homeland. Anthony H. Cordesman (Praeger, 2002) UA23 .C6738 2002

Terrorism in context. ed. Martha Crenshaw (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1995) HV6431 .T4665 1995

Toxic terror: assessing terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons. ed. Jonathan B. Tucker MIT Press, 2000) HV6431 .T68 2000

Understanding terrorism: psychosocial roots, consequences, and interventions. Fathhali M. Moghaddam and Anthony J. Marsella, eds. (American Psychological Association, 2004) HV 6431 .U35 2004

Unholy wars: Afghanistan, America and international terrorism. John K. Cooley (Pluto Press, 1999) JZ1480.A57 A3 1999

MARQCAT Subject Headings for further exploration:

Afghanistan
Biological warfare
Bioterrorism
Islam
Islam and Politics
Islamic fundamentalism
(title) Koran. English
Religious fundamentalism-Middle East
September 11
Taliban
Terrorism
Weapons of mass destruction

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
ProQuest Research Library
PAIS International
World News Connection
ATLA Religion Database

Selected Web Sites:

Afghan News Network (ANN)
U.S-based nonprofit’s collection of nearly 4,000 articles on Afghanistan from April 2000 forward.

Afghanistan: Images (1969) from the Harrison Forman Collection at UW-Milwaukee

Afghanistan / Taliban Photo Gallery
Remarkable selection of journalistic photographs of Afghanistan and the Taliban from the takeover of Kabul in 1996 through 1998, taken by Finnish photojournalist Ilkka Uimonen.

After September 11: Perspectives for the Social Sciences

American Association of University Presses presents an extensive booklist

DefenseLink (U.S. Department of Defense)

Islamcity

Islamic Studies (Georgia)

Middle East Institute

Omaid Weekly (English section)
Omaid Weekly, based in Alexandria, VA, calls itself “the most widely read Afghan publication in the world.” The site contains opinion and archived articles since August 2000.

September11.archive.org
Collection of previously distributed media

September 11 Digital Archive
Funded by a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and organized by the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the September 11 Digital Archive is a project that uses electronic media to "collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attack in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them."  The major goal of this project is to create a permanent record of the events of September 11, 2001, foster positive legacies of those terrible events by allowing people to tell their stories, and then make those stories available to a wide audience.  The project also seeks to provide an historical context for understanding these events along with their consequences.

The September 11 Source Books Vol. I: Terrorism and U.S. Policy
The National Security Archive’s (NSA) first effort "to put on the record the primary source documentation that can enrich the policy debate, improve journalism, educate policymaker…”

Alternative Viewpoints:

Resources for peace

September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

Meta Sites:

Afghanistan Resources from Mike Madin’s Academic Info
Useful pathfinder with info/links on news, Taliban, Bin Laden, women; a new section “Terrorist Attack on the United States”

Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection
Large collection from the University of Nebraska at Omaha

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
University of Texas at Austin collection of topographical, ethnographic, and political maps of Afghanistan and the region.

Library of Congress September 11 Documentary Project