In recent years, Qawali nights have become a cherished part of wedding celebrations in Pakistan. This trend, which is particularly popular among the younger generation, reflects a revival of ...

Qawwali is a musical form associated with the sama’, spiritual concert, of the Chishti Sufi Order. In its religious context it functions as a way to bring members of the order into a trance-like state ...

Even though Eid had passed, Salam Fest extended the celebrations by hosting a cultural day at the Victorian State Library, ...

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 ...

Rauf Saami and his brothers Mohammad Abu Nasr Saami, Mohammad Azeem Jawad and Ahmed Saami have been qawwals for 30 years. Leading an ensemble of eight accompanying musicians, the Saami brothers are ...

“There are certain things that must be done for the sake of history.” That was Manjari Chaturvedi’s motivation for curating the Qawwali Photo Project, an exhibition of photographs featuring the lives ...

Little Fattah sits in the middle of the group, thrilled, and also overwhelmed. Men around him raise an alaap and seize his attention. His uncle encourages him to join and the look on his face changes.

Until some point in time roughly equivalent to the occasion of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s first trip to the West, qawwali, South Asian Islam’s ecstatic and transcendental form of musical worship was ...

Lok Janshakti Party MP, Shambhavi, criticized the opposition in the Lok Sabha using a qawwali-inspired couplet. She accused them of negative politics amidst a discussion on the Finance Bill, 2026.