“A performance of qawwali is something that we take very seriously,” says Ghayoor Ahmed, the principal singer of Ghayoor Moiz Mustafa Qawwal and Party. “It is more than just singing for us because we ...

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 ...

A well-deserved presidential award is a boon to the arts but it is unfortunately very rare, especially in our country, that the genius of an artist is acknowledged and celebrated befittingly during ...

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 ...

Qawwali is a unique way of expressing emotions and Islam was spread through Qawwali in the Indian subcontinent, said Naheed Manzoor. She was speaking at Mehfil-e-Sama held in connection with Ashra ...

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 ...

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 ...