Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan—Trad Album” was all it said on the cover. “I was always browsing, and I would spend a lot of afternoons after lunch there,” Mullan says. “I knew that would be the ultimate find—a ...

Qawwali has a deeply religious history dating ... The Nooran Sisters (Jyoti and Sultana) are two of the best known female stars of the genre. They came to fame on MTV India's talent show Sound ...

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 ...

The result in both cases was music that blended soulful Qawwali music with a more Western style. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's 'Intoxicated Spirit' was nominated for a Grammy award in 1997 for Best ...

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 ...