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 ...

In recent years, Qawali nights have become a cherished part of wedding celebrations in Pakistan. This trend, which is particularly popular among the younger generation, reflects a revival of ...

The Al Qurum Natural Park venue of the ongoing Muscat Nights witnessed dews of Qawwali music being showered on the packed ...

Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...

“There are certain things that must be done for the sake of history.” That was Manjari Chaturvedi’s motivation for curating the Qawwali Photo Project, an exhibition of photographs featuring the lives ...

LAHORE: Qawwali performance does not have to be religiously motivated or oriented towards the divine. It is an expression of love and can be addressed to the divine in any of its multiple conceptions ...

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 ...

‘Sufisaints bring people together. And so do the musicians and singers who sing Qawwali, an Indian localised form of Sufimusic,’ said Haji Mohammed Idris of the Qutbi Brothers, one of India’s most ...

Have you ever wondered how qawwali transcended years of cultural appropriation and still finds relevance in mainstream art and cinema? In another session, founder of South Asian Alliance for ...

In recent years, Qawali nights have become a cherished part of wedding celebrations in Pakistan. This trend, which is particularly popular among the younger generation, reflects a revival of ...