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
Modern

Bhangra

Filmi
Pop
Rock
Bangla

Raga

Blues

Jazz

Trance

Media and performance

Music awards

Filmfare Awards
Punjabi Music Awards
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

Music festivals

Chennai Music Season

Dover Lane music festival
Tyagaraja Aradhana

Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana

Sruti

Music media

The Record Music Magazine

Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem

Jana Gana Mana

Regional music

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Andhra Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh

Assam

Bihar

Chhattisgarh

Goa

Gujarat

Haryana

Himachal Pradesh

Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh

Jharkhand

Karnataka

Kerala
Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Manipur
Meghalaya

Mizoram

Nagaland

Odisha

Punjab

Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu

Ancient

Tripura
Uttar Pradesh

Uttarakhand

West Bengal

Bengali

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]

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