The murder of the renowned qawwal, Amjad Sabri came as a rude jolt to the popular genre of vocal music, but to think that this will toll a death knell for qawwali would best be described as jumping to ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Lismore. Followed categories will be added to My News. Canadian-born performer and teacher Tahir Qawwal has spent many years immersed in the tradition of Qawwali, ...

Qawwali is a musical form associated with the sama’, spiritual concert, of the Chishti Sufi Order. In its religious context it functions as a way to bring members of the order into a trance-like state ...

Raees Khan explores the history, influence and enduring legacy of Qawwali music, both within and outside of the Islamic World. Show more Raees Khan explores the history, influence and enduring legacy ...

KARACHI, Dec 8: They call themselves Fanna-Fi-Allah and they are in Pakistan for “building bridges through music”. The American Qawwali band that has deep roots in Pakistan, especially Sindh, as ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Qawwali is the Islamic devotional music of India and Pakistan, poems and praise-songs traditionally ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Qawwali is the Sufi devotional music of India and Pakistan, ecstatic praise-songs traditionally offered ...

Until some point in time roughly equivalent to the occasion of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s first trip to the West, qawwali, South Asian Islam’s ecstatic and transcendental form of musical worship was ...

So we are back to medieval times and the medieval discourse whether music is halal (permissible) in Islam or is explicitly haram (forbidden). A deeply disturbing news item appeared in sections of the ...

'Maula Salim Chishti, Aaqa Salim Chishti...', from the movie Garam Hawa (1973), has been my all-time favourite qawwali.. I was just 15 then and at that age, you don't go watching such movies. Much ...

Raees Khan explores the history, influence and enduring legacy of Qawwali music, both within, as well as outside of the Islamic World. From its earliest origins in the writings of Sufi Saints, to its ...