When we think about Taliban, the first image that comes to mind is that of the Islamic extremists who are on the pages of newspapers and news previews. Nevertheless, the term Taliban has an entirely different meaning. Indeed, the Taliban (from the Arabic ṭāleb, singular of ṭālebān) is nothing more than a student of Koranic schools in the Iranian area. The Taliban culture and tradition are characterised by being based on a mixture of Shari’a and Pashtunwali, the code of