The singer must be an adult and not a child or a female. Sima’ (to listen to Qawwali) is permissible if a few conditions are met. The following conditions were initially placed on Qawwali: Originally, musical instrument use in Qawwali was prohibited. The word Sama is often still used in Central Asia and Turkey to refer to forms very similar to Qawwali, and in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the formal name used for a session of Qawwali is Mehfil-e-Sama. Qawl ( Arabic: قَوْل) is an 'utterance (of the prophet)', Qawwāl is someone who often repeats (sings) a Qaul, Qawwāli is what a Qawwāl sings.ĭelhi's Sufi saint Amir Khusrow of the Chisti order of Sufis is credited with fusing the Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Indian traditions in the late 13th century in India to create Qawwali as we know it today. 6 Traditional sequence of a Chishtiya Sufi Order qawwali performance.Most modern Qawwali singers including Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Fareed Ayyaz & Abu Muhammad belong to the famed ' Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana' school of Qawwali, which was based in Delhi before 1947 and migrated to Pakistan.

Other famous Qawwali singers include Fareed Ayyaz & Abu Muhammad, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Badar Miandad, Rizwan & Moazzam Duo, the late Amjad Sabri, Wadali Brothers, Nizami Bandhu, Bahauddin Qutbuddin, among others. Qawwali music received international exposure through the work of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Aziz Mian and Sabri Brothers largely due to several releases on the Real World label, followed by live appearances at WOMAD festivals. Originally performed at Sufi shrines or dargahs throughout South Asia, it gained mainstream popularity and an international audience in late 20th century. Qawwali ( Punjabi: قوّالی ( Shahmukhi), ਕ਼ੱਵਾਲੀ ( Gurmukhi) Urdu: قوّالی ( Nasta'liq) Hindi: क़व्वाली ( Devanagari) Bengali: কাওয়ালি ( Bengali)) is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing, originating from the Indian subcontinent, and notably popular in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Pakistan in Hyderabad, Delhi and other parts of India, especially North India as well as the Dhaka and Chittagong Divisions of Bangladesh.

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