Awards

• Winner of Carolina's Outstanding Contribution to Middle East and Islamic Studies Book Award 2025

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Singing with the Mountains is highly valuable for those of us interested in the complex and multiple regional histories of Islam, especially those marginalized ""heterodox"" groups and local traditions that are so often left out of the popular imaginary of Islam as an unbroken monolith. Sherman's achievement here is substantial and exciting.---Michael Muhammad Knight, author of Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism

"Singing with the Mountains is highly valuable for those of us interested in the complex and multiple regional histories of Islam, especially those marginalized ""heterodox"" groups and local traditions that are so often left out of the popular imaginary of Islam as an unbroken monolith. Sherman's achievement here is substantial and exciting.---Michael Muhammad Knight, author of Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism"

By entering the inner world of the 'illuminated ones', William E.B. Sherman's Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands paints a numinous picture of a land whose history and faith remain poorly understood.-- ""History Today, 2024 Books of the Year"" Singing with the Mountains is highly valuable for those of us interested in the complex and multiple regional histories of Islam, especially those marginalized ""heterodox"" groups and local traditions that are so often left out of the popular imaginary of Islam as an unbroken monolith. Sherman's achievement here is substantial and exciting.---Michael Muhammad Knight, author of Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism

"Singing with the Mountains is highly valuable for those of us interested in the complex and multiple regional histories of Islam, especially those marginalized ""heterodox"" groups and local traditions that are so often left out of the popular imaginary of Islam as an unbroken monolith. Sherman's achievement here is substantial and exciting.---Michael Muhammad Knight"

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William E. B. Sherman is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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