CHANDIGARH: Melody diction and rhythm of Urdu poetry weaved in musical patterns came alive as renowned qawwali queen Chanchal Bharti along with nine artistes performed during the second day of the ...

Are newer incarnations of qawwali straying away from traditions of this revered musical form and, even if they are, does it matter? I only have qawwali to blame for my first and solitary act of ...

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 ...

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 ...