Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited for bringing global attention to Qawwali music, extending the 600yr old Qawwali ...

That is the question that Delhi-based documentary filmmaker, researcher and writer Yousuf Saeed is answering through his database of qawwalis in Hindi language cinema. The director of a documentary ...

A special two-night series to celebrate Qawwali, one of the world’s oldest oral traditions that has evolved into being the universal song of love, peace, and brotherhood. The first evening of this ...

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 ...

The Chishti order, the most prominent Sufi brotherhood in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan, has long celebrated the normativity of qawwali as an expression of divine love. Annemarie Schimmel has noted ...

Are newer incarnations of qawwali straying away from traditions of this revered musical form and, even if they are, does it matter? I only have qawwali to blame for my first and solitary act of ...

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 ...

Can a devotional song erase the lines that divide people? Across history, music has often done what politics and borders ...

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 ...