Associate Professor Matthew Nelson

Associate Professor in Islam and Politics in South Asia, Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Will Muslim-Majority States recognise the Afghan Taliban’s ‘Islamic’ regime?

By Islamic standards, the Taliban regime is unusually narrow and destabilising. Security-conscious Muslim-majority states should pause before deciding to recognise it

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