Singing with the Mountains

Winner, Carolina's Outstanding Contribution to Middle East and Islamic Studies Book Award An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic community known as the Roshani­yya not only desired to find God’s word and to abide by it but also attempted to practice God’s word and to develop techniques of language intended to render their own tongues as the organs of continuous revelation. As their critics would