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’ ...

The seventh edition of Understanding Qawwali celebrated the art form with the launch of Manjari Chaturvedi's book, 'Qawwali: ...

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 ...

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 ...