Today, qawwali, as a form of spiritual music sung at shrines of Sufi saints, has undergone a dramatic transformation. Now qawwali has become a secular, commercial genre performed on the concert stage ...

The programs will explore how faith and rituals continue to thrive in South Asia despite huge social and economic changes. Nine Lives looks at South Asia's diverse sacred traditions through the ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Sufism, the mystical or aesthetic doctrine in Islam, has occupied a very specific ...

They had begun a Sufi chant when “a man shot at the dozen ... Attacks regularly target Sufis during rituals or gatherings in Afghanistan, a country with a very large Muslim majority but where ...

A gunman opened fire on a group of Sufis during a weekly ritual at a shrine in ... group. During a Sufi chant, "a man shot at the dozen worshippers", the resident stated, requesting to remain ...

They had begun a Sufi chant when “a man shot at the dozen ... Attacks regularly target Sufis during rituals or gatherings in Afghanistan, a country with a very large Muslim majority but where ...