qawwali
Noun
Meaning
(music, uncountable) A style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the South Asian Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.
(music, countable) A song in this style.
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Examples
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.
A fantastic day filled with art, architecture, history, politics and literature rounded off with a musical finale – Qawwali performance by Fareed Ayad, Abu Mohammed Qawwal and Brothers pic.
Arguably, this interactivity is lost when a qawwali is recorded or presented in as short as a nine to 10 minute musical performance in a show like Coke Studio.
The significance of this is that like all forms of Sufi music, the Qawwali is premised on the theological centrality of listening to creation, and in return reverberating the ecstatic sounds of love, longing, and devotion to the Divine.
“There hadn’t been an Abida Parveen qawwali at the IVS in a while and the school’s ambience serves as the perfect backdrop for such an event.”