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    Sufi Music: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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    Sufi music is devotional music inspired by Sufi poets that is used to honor Sufi spiritual practices. Qawwali is the most well-known form of Sufi music, commonly found in parts of Pakistan and India, involving vocal and instrumental pieces featuring instruments like the ney flute. Other forms include the music of the whirling dervishes and West African gnawa music. Sufi love songs are often performed as ghazals and kafi, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium drawing from the songs of Sufi poets.

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    Sufi music is devotional music inspired by Sufi poets that is used to honor Sufi spiritual practices. Qawwali is the most well-known form of Sufi music, commonly found in parts of Pakistan and India, involving vocal and instrumental pieces featuring instruments like the ney flute. Other forms include the music of the whirling dervishes and West African gnawa music. Sufi love songs are often performed as ghazals and kafi, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium drawing from the songs of Sufi poets.

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    Sufi music is devotional music inspired by Sufi poets that is used to honor Sufi spiritual practices. Qawwali is the most well-known form of Sufi music, commonly found in parts of Pakistan and India, involving vocal and instrumental pieces featuring instruments like the ney flute. Other forms include the music of the whirling dervishes and West African gnawa music. Sufi love songs are often performed as ghazals and kafi, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium drawing from the songs of Sufi poets.

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    Sufi music

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    Sufi music singer Abida Parveen in concert at Oslo

    [hide]Music

    of India

    A Lady Playing the Tanpura, ca. 1735 (Rajasthan)

    Genres
    Traditional

    Classical

    Carnatic

    Hindustani

    Folk

    Baul

    Rabindra Sangeet

    Thumri

    Dadra

    Ghazal

    Qawwali

    Chaiti

    Kajri

    Sufi
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    Music awards

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    Music festivals

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    Dover Lane music festival
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    Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana


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    The Record Music Magazine


    Nationalistic and patriotic songs
    National anthem

    Jana Gana Mana


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    Sufi music is the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets, like Rumi,Hafiz, Bulleh
    Shah and Khwaja Ghulam Farid.
    Qawwali is the most well known form of Sufi music and is mostly common in parts of Pakistanand India.
    However, music is also central to the Sema ceremony of the whirling dervishes, which is set to a form of music
    called Ayin, a vocal and instrumental piece featuring Turkish classical instruments such as the ney (a reed
    flute). The West African gnawa is another form, and Sufis from Indonesia to Afghanistan to Morocco have
    made music central to their practises. Some of the Sufi orders have taken an approach more akin
    to puritan forms of Islam, declaring music to be unhelpful to the Sufi way.
    Sufi love songs are often performed as ghazals and Kafi, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and
    harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets.

    See also[edit]

    Arabic music

    Durood

    Hamd

    Islamic music

    Islamic poetry

    Mawlid

    Mehfil

    Music of Turkey

    Na'at

    Nasheed

    Sufi poetry

    Sufism

    History of Sufism

    Further reading[edit]

    Sufi Music Sufi music of India and Pakistan: sound, context, and meaning in qawwali, by Regula
    Qureshi. Cambridge University Press (CUP) Archive, 1986. ISBN 0-521-26767-6.

    External links[edit]

    Sufi Music

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