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 ...

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’ ...

Sufi Kathak exponent Manjari Chaturvedi hosted the first edition of the Qawwali Symposium in the city. The objective behind the educational seminar, titled Understanding Qawwali, was to bring the art ...