There is probably no Sufi practice that has historically been more evident and more controversial than sama’, or listening to music as a means of altering one’s state of consciousness. Sama’ ...

Few art forms encapsulate this transcendence better than Sufi music. Bengaluru witnessed this ethereal connection as the KM Sufi Ensemble, part of maestro AR Rahman’s prestigious KM Music ...

Prolific chanter Amer El-Touni, founder of the Sufi chanting group Egyptian Mawlawiyah, died Sunday in Cairo at the age of 57 ...

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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 ...

Riaz Ali Qadri and Bhai Ghulam Muhammad Chand are music teachers. They all agreed that various versions of Sufi and classical music could vary but a blend of their voices with beats is something ...

1/2. In the first of two award-winning programmes, first broadcast on BBC World Service, Jameela Siddiqi attends the all-night festival at the cradle of Sufi music, the Nizamuddin shrine in Delhi.

Music, and Folk Art for two decades. In the mid-2010s, he became the creative director of Beit El Sehemy Creative Centre. Moreover, he established the Sufi chanting group Egyptian Mawlawiyah in 1994.