The Role and Place of the Taliban on the Global Map of Islam: Challenges and Threats

... Interventions: Why Russia Succeeded in Syria When U.S. Failed in Afghanistan Between Modernism and Traditionalism Thus, falling back on traditional legal and theological schools of Islam in the region and using them to find ground for their actions, the Taliban does not fit into the framework of either Salafi jihadism—or, as some researchers go on to suggest, Islamism itself. The anthropologist Olivier Roy, for one, believes movements such as the Taliban to be “neo-fundamentalist”, distinguishing them from what can be seen as another set of Islamic movements, often called “Islamist.” Limited, as his ...