Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited for bringing global attention to Qawwali music, extending the 600yr old Qawwali tradition of his family. By the time of his death following a heart attack ...

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 ...

“You can’t even tell from the names, so one has to develop one’s own definition of cinema qawwali, to some extent.” On the website, Saeed says that in Hindi language cinema, qawwalis are ...

Director of the International Mugham Center, Honored Artist, tar player Sahib Pashazade, and the center's soloist, Honored ...

The event commenced with a recitation in praise of Allah. Notable figures, including veteran actor Rashid Mehmood, Pir Syed ...

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“Ya Gaus Ya Meeran,” the track in question, was an unreleased Khan qawwali, a song based on the devotional poetry of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam. Khan, a polyglot whose musical family ...

With music played by a mostly new and international house-band as well as some local musicians, it is from Ali Azmat’s second album, Klashinifolk with Muazzam Ali Khan singing an old qawwali ...

(Web Desk) - World Culture Festival on Sunday entered 11th day with folk dance and Qawwali performance, which held audience spellbound in Karachi.