Pakistani qawwali maestro Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, known for giving hit Bollywood numbers like Jiya dhadak dhadak and Sajda, is happy that record label Universal Music India came forward to support his ...

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, ...

The database started out with 250 songs in 2021 with funding support from the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and now the number has swelled to 800 and counting. It includes music from ...

‘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 ...

It is past midnight. The marble floor of the Nizamuddin dargah is covered with dew. The pungent fragrance of incense engulfs the compound. The mausoleum is lit up with fairy lights. The shrine is ...

Sufi Kathak exponent Manjari Chaturvedi hosted the first edition of the Qawwali Symposium in the city. The objective behind the educational seminar, titled Understanding Qawwali, was to bring the art ...

The Niazi brothers have not only preserved the traditional essence of Qawwali but have also managed to infuse it with contemporary relevance, writes GYANESHWAR DAYAL Immersed in the mysticism of Sufi ...

The qawwali, a musical genre closely associated with Islamic Sufi tradition, has evolved over the generations to include not just devotion, but romance, comedy and even social commentary in its fold.