A trio of traditional Sufi dargah singers teams up with Middle Eastern frame drums, the resonant strings of the sarangi (bowed, short-necked string instrument), and Tibetan brass in pulsating, ...
El-Hadra troupe held their first Ramadan concert on Friday at the Zamalek Theatre. Founded by Nour Nageh in 2015, the troupe took the lead in bringing Sufi zikr (remembrance of allah) and madih ...
Sufism is the mystical path of Islam. It is the inner, meditative branch of the religion that's found in many different forms, in many different countries, and seldom makes news like its Sunni and ...
A friend passed on to me a must-listen Fresh Air interview with Jason Hamacher, an American punk drummer who went to Syria just before the war to record ancient Sufi and Christian liturgical music.
BARZANJA, IRAQ - The dervishes swayed with the drumbeat, flinging their long hair and chanting “Allah, Allah.” Nearby others were showing, as one put it, their “passion for God”: one drove a skewer ...
Abu Dhabi: Hamza Shakour, the Syrian religious chanter, opened the "blessings of Ramadan" programme in the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi on Thursday night with a spellbinding performance. Shakour, ...
MOGADISHU, SomaliaMOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else’s ...
Sufism is the mystical path of Islam. It is the inner, meditative branch of the religion that's found in many different forms, in many different countries, and seldom makes news like its Sunni and ...
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