I used to tell my listeners that Qawwali music was not music made by cute little furry Australian arboreal creatures, but rather, sufi gospel music from Pakistan. The term, Qawwali, means ‘utterance’ ...

BAREILLY: A cleric at Dargah Aala Hazrat has passed a fatwa stating that playing ‘DJ and qawwali’ during Juloos-e-Mohammadi is against Islam. The fatwa, passed on Thursday on a query filed by a local ...

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 ...