‘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 ...

KARACHI: Renowned writer on arts, culture and history and critic of the art, Ally Adnan said that Qawwali was more than three thousand years old, but this unique type of Hindustani music was still ...

One of the characteristics of the modern weltanschauung (worldview) is to identify religion as distinct from culture. Islam, and Islam in Pakistan, doesn’t escape this bifurcation either. One popular ...

Between 1947 and the early 1950s, much of the music played on the state-owned Radio Pakistan comprised Urdu film songs, some Western popular and Eastern classical music, ghazals and patriotic ditties.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan National Council of the arts (PNCA) started a 2-day Qawwali festival to entertain isolates with performance of renowned Qawwals late Tuesday. Featuring a unique expression of ...

Qawwali is purely an Islamic devotional musical recitation of Sufi traditions, in which verses are recited in praise of Allah, Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), his companions and the Sufis of ...

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 ...

BAREILLY: A cleric at Dargah Aala Hazrat has passed a fatwa stating that playing ‘DJ and qawwali’ during Juloos-e-Mohammadi is against Islam. The fatwa, passed on Thursday on a query filed by a local ...