Roshani movement

The Rōshānī movement (Pashto: روښاني غورځنګ, lit. 'The enlightened movement' or The Illuminati) was a populist, nonsectarian Sufi movement that was founded in the mid-16th century, in the Pashtunistan region of present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, and arose among the Pashtun tribes. The movement was founded by Pir Roshan, an Ormur warrior, Sufi poet and revolutionary.

Described as heterodoxical movement with Millenarianism view, This Sufi was group popular with the Pashtun populations in the northwestern regions of the Mughal Empire. The movement itself was a challenge to Pashtun tribal society, and its purpose was to raise issues of leadership, authority, and social ethics.

The Roshaniyya movement went through three phases: the first phase lasted from 1565 to 1585, the second phase from 1585 to 1605, and the third phase from 1605 to 1632.