Yeah aand just the most superfial research.
Taliban’s rise to power
“At the conclusion of a speech[32] given on September 26, 2008 at the Seattle Central Library, the journalist Robert Fisk relates the account of one Captain Mainwaring given in the official British report of ca. 1882 on the Battle of Maiwand, which took place on July 27, 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Mainwaring wrote of how particular Afghan fighters wearing black turbans would charge the British infantry lines and, upon reaching a British soldier, would proceed by cutting open his throat; of these suicidal Afghan fighters Mainwaring reveals ‘they were called the Taliban”
Wiki for pete’s sake.
A ‘talib’ is a student, with ‘taliban’ the plural.