textScholarship has tended to focus exclusively on connections of Qawwali, a north Indian devotional practice and musical genre, to religious practice. A focus on the religious degree of the occasion inadequately represents the participant’s active experience and has hindered the discussion of Qawwali in modern practice. Through the examples of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s music and an insightful BBC radio article on gender inequality this thesis explores the fluid musical exchanges of information with other styles of Qawwali performances, and the unchanging nature of an oral tradition that maintains sociopolitical hierarchies and gender relations in Sufi shrine culture. Perceptions of history within shrine culture blend together with social and...
The imbrication of issues of nation, class, gender, and religion necessitates a critical revision of...
This dissertation is a study of the use and contestation of Sindhi-language Sufi poetry performance ...
This thesis traces the history of music and performance practices between Sufi networks and the cour...
textScholarship has tended to focus exclusively on connections of Qawwali, a north Indian devotional...
A close reading of the popular spiritual Sufi qawwali “Dama Dam Mast Qalandar” reveals how the spati...
The historical evidence suggests that women and men have been considered equal in the path of Tasawu...
Wine and intoxication are among the motifs that suffuse the poetry traditionally performed in qawwal...
The purpose of this study is to examine interreligious participation for male Muslim musicians in Hi...
Bāul-Fakirs are a heterogeneous group of Bengali musicians and spiritual practitioners known for the...
Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures at Harvard University, gave a ...
ABSTRACT: Keeping in mind the present cultural scenario, Muslim community studies have emerged as a ...
The use of music in religious traditions is a complicated subject. Some say it doesn’t have any plac...
Against current debates about the gradual ‘Islamisation’ of South Asia by Sufi cults, and the shifti...
In Indonesia, amidst a plethora of unique Southeast Asian popular and folk music, Western music, and...
This article explores how music at once reflects and also actively shapes aspects of communal relati...
The imbrication of issues of nation, class, gender, and religion necessitates a critical revision of...
This dissertation is a study of the use and contestation of Sindhi-language Sufi poetry performance ...
This thesis traces the history of music and performance practices between Sufi networks and the cour...
textScholarship has tended to focus exclusively on connections of Qawwali, a north Indian devotional...
A close reading of the popular spiritual Sufi qawwali “Dama Dam Mast Qalandar” reveals how the spati...
The historical evidence suggests that women and men have been considered equal in the path of Tasawu...
Wine and intoxication are among the motifs that suffuse the poetry traditionally performed in qawwal...
The purpose of this study is to examine interreligious participation for male Muslim musicians in Hi...
Bāul-Fakirs are a heterogeneous group of Bengali musicians and spiritual practitioners known for the...
Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures at Harvard University, gave a ...
ABSTRACT: Keeping in mind the present cultural scenario, Muslim community studies have emerged as a ...
The use of music in religious traditions is a complicated subject. Some say it doesn’t have any plac...
Against current debates about the gradual ‘Islamisation’ of South Asia by Sufi cults, and the shifti...
In Indonesia, amidst a plethora of unique Southeast Asian popular and folk music, Western music, and...
This article explores how music at once reflects and also actively shapes aspects of communal relati...
The imbrication of issues of nation, class, gender, and religion necessitates a critical revision of...
This dissertation is a study of the use and contestation of Sindhi-language Sufi poetry performance ...
This thesis traces the history of music and performance practices between Sufi networks and the cour...