"Hello…mic check," boomed a voice at the presentation on 'Qawwali Music and the Sufi Poetry Tradition' on the second day of the fifth Karachi Literature Festival. A ...

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It’s not every day you hear qawwalis in Melbourne’s Fed Square. The centuries-old form of Sufi devotional music has long offered healing through rhythm, repetition and poetry. In Pakistan, the ...

ISLAMABAD: Serena hotels hosted a soulful Qawwali night featuring world renowned Qawal Asif Ali Santoo on Friday 31st May 2019 in Islamabad. The event was hosted under the cultural diplomacy ...

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, ...

Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwal, one of the famous Sufi singing groups of Pakistan, will be in the United Sates where nephews of the legendry Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan will engage Qawwali lovers with their soulful ...

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.