Mountains and Messiahs: Revelation, Language and Afghan Becomings in the 16th-17th Centuries

William Sherman was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for four weeks. "Focusing primarily on the religious imaginations Bayazid Ansari and the Rawshaniyya, this project draws upon manuscript sources in order to trace the development and transformation of categories of belonging in South Asian religious discourses."