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Live festival footage of Dhafer Youssef performing 17th Flyways at the Jazz à Vienne festival.
Dhafer Youssef
Nearly two hours of qawwali as it is actually held: a full mehfil-e-sama with Faiz Ali Faiz and his party, one piece opening into the next.
Haq Production Tv Official
The Amir Khusrau song sung on the day his master's colour fell on him, in a live performance.
Shan Music Unlimited
His award performance in London with the Gnawa Kouyous and Karim Ziad.
Transcordancias
Bulleh Shah's verse on the single letter alif, sung with the band Noori: everything learned, set beside the one thing that matters.
Coke Studio Pakistan
A full live concert of Andalusian Sufi devotional music performed on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.
The Kennedy Center
Almost two hours of mugham sung by Alim Qasimov with his daughter Fargana and the Camerata orchestra, recorded live in Izmir on 30 November 2016.
Alim Qasımov
The wandering singer of the Punjabi shrines with his ektara and ankle bells, on the divine name.
Oriental Star Agencies
The qawwali on the divine name, sung with harmonium, tabla and the hand-clapping that carries the rhythm.
A for Aleph
Fanna-Fi-Allah performing the qawwali hymn Allah Hoo live in Berlin.
Fanna-Fi-Allah (official channel)
Mooralala Marwada sings the Kabir bhajan Amar Piyaalo in a studio recording for the Kabir Project.
ajab shahar - kabir project
The British mystic-scholar, known for his work on Rumi and Sufism, discusses sacred activism.
Buddha at the Gas Pump
A performance of Arabiskan with the Cairo Steps ensemble, with El Helbawy's inshad voice carried over oud, piano and percussion.
Cairo Steps
A full evening with the Tariqa Wazzaniya in the Jnan Sbil gardens, recorded at the Fes Festival of Sufi Culture.
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie
A performance at the LAC festival in 2026.
LAC Documenta
A kafi about hard roads, in the voice of a man who spent decades singing at the shrines before anyone recorded him.
An ambient piece of nearly fifteen minutes in which Paulina Magus sings over a slow electronic landscape by All Stars Dying.
Paulina Magus
A full festival set in front of a live audience, where she moves between Urdu ghazal, Sindhi kafi and Punjabi kalam and stretches lines out as the room responds.
Jashn-e-Rekhta
Three minutes on the question this whole site is built around.
Closer To Truth
An official studio recording blending Celtic instrumentation with Sufi praise chant.
Al Firdaus Ensemble
A performance of Amir Khusrau's Chaap Tilak before a festival audience in Montreal, showing how the Delhi gharana party builds a single poem over time.
Saad Abdullah Niazi Official
Cheikh Lo and his band play a complete in-studio set for KEXP, mbalax and Cuban rhythms carried by the Baye Fall devotional songs he has sung all his life.
KEXP
The official video for Ndogal, with Cheikh Lo singing and playing in the loose, percussive style that has made him one of Senegal's most recognisable voices.
World Circuit Records
Chelan Harkin reads her poem "The Worst Thing We Ever Did."
Inspiration is Contagious
Poet Chelan Harkin in conversation on the Gideon Wolfgang & the Music podcast.
Nicholas Donavon Jaeger
Two songs woven together, recorded for the Small World Music series in Toronto.
Small World Music
A live rendering of Amir Khusrau's Chhap Tilak at the Jashn-e-Rekhta festival in Delhi.
A Punjabi devotional sung in the qawwali tradition of the Punjab, where Sher Miandad Khan's family has sung for generations.
Music World Islamic
Abida Parveen trades verses with Naseebo Lal over a slow-building band arrangement, the refrain urging the listener to let go and whirl.
A full hour of Turkish sufi and classical repertoire performed live at the Eyupsultan cultural centre in Istanbul.
Eyüpsultan Kültür Sanat
The Syrian singer and oud player in the studios of France Musique, singing the mystical poetry she draws on.
France Musique
A complete mugham concert given by Alim Qasimov and his ensemble in Tabriz, from his own channel.
A full concert of Davood Azad singing and playing the Persian Sufi repertoire on tar and setar with his ensemble.
Iran International
Erdal Erzincan on bağlama and Kayhan Kalhor on kamancheh perform this piece together as a duo.
Erdal Erzincan - Temkeş Müzik
Live festival footage of Dhafer Youssef performing Dance Layan Dance at the Cosmo Jazz Festival.
An instrumental in which the Sufi reed meets something closer to ambient composition.
Iftekharul Anam
Moradi plays the tanbour maqams and his own compositions on Maqam-e Qaribi and Maqam-e Saro-Khani, followed by solos and trios with Arash and Kourosh Moradi.
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
Ellie Roozdar is interviewed on kundalini, meditation, and nothingness for Buddha at the Gas Pump.
His full festival set in Utrecht, harmonium, tabla and the answering clap of the party behind him.
Le Guess Who?
A recent lecture on what is lost when a civilisation stops treating anything as sacred.
Diyanet Center of America
The opening sequence of the lila, performed at the Gnawa festival in The Hague.
Gnaoua Culture
Fanna-Fi-Allah's full in-studio qawwali session recorded for KEXP.
A complete concert in which Ali El Helbawy sings with the Egyptian-German ensemble Cairo Steps, moving between Sufi chant, muwashshah and jazz-inflected arrangement.
nileculture2013
Erdal Erzincan plays and sings the piece Gitme Turnam solo on bağlama.
A full concert with his group at the American Arts Center in Casablanca, well filmed and well recorded.
American Arts Center of Casablanca
A studio set for Moroccan television, with the qraqeb and voices close enough to hear separately.
Gnawa Imourig
A complete recording of Munojat Yulchieva singing Guncha Yanglik with the Shavkat Mirzaev ensemble.
Munadjat Yulchieva, Ensemble Shavkat Mirzaev
A kalam on bewilderment before the divine, sung by the Sindhi singer who grew up performing at the shrines with her father.
Fanna-Fi-Allah performing the qawwali Haq Ali Ali at London's Barbican Centre.
Twenty-two minutes on one qawwali, Haq Ali Ali, with Ali Shahbaz and Nazar Abbas beside him at the Old Rep.
Faiz Ali Faiz (own channel)
A studio qawwali recorded with a band for Coke Studio India, the performance that introduced him to a wide audience.
Coke Studio India
A Sunday meditation session on living from the heart in daily life.
Original source
Supplications and songs in praise of the Prophet, in the Egyptian ibtihal style sung before dawn.
Ihab Younis
An hour and a half at Harvard on consciousness as the ground of things rather than a product of them.
Harvard Divinity School
A long instrumental piece for ney and strings, from the Bangladeshi composer's own channel.
An introduction to dhikr and breath-based practice within the Islamic and Sufi contemplative tradition.
On why Islamic art is not decoration but an argument about reality.
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Ilahi, the first women's qawwali ensemble, performing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Urdu naat Kali Kamlia Chand Sa Mukhra live. The ensemble is trained by Tahir Qawwal.
Fanna-Fi-Allah
An evening of sholawat with a crowd in East Kalimantan, the fourteenth time the gathering was held.
Habib Syech Bin Abdul Qadir Assegaf
The first episode of Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann's teaching series, on self-knowledge as the path to inner freedom.
Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann (YouTube)
Eight minutes on a life spent with these texts, and the shortest way in.
Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts
A short piece built around the breathy tone of the reed flute that Sufi music has used for grief for centuries.
Part of a nature meditation series; reflection on light and darkness as symbolic and spiritual polarities.
A song recorded at the Arabesques festival in Montpellier.
Musiques du Monde
A complete concert film of Dhafer Youssef and his band performing the Diwan of Beauty and Odd album live at the Olympia in Paris.
Sufi sama and inshad from Chefchaouen, performed in the Aljaferia palace in Zaragoza.
Ensemble Ibn Arabi
A full qawwali concert with the National Sufi Ensemble, recorded on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.
Voice and oud alone, recorded during a concert in Berlin.
Waed Bouhassoun
An hour and a half on whether the Islamic path runs through knowing or through loving, and why that is a false choice.
Habib Ali al-Jifri at Yale Divinity School, in a conversation between Muslim and Christian scholars on the two commandments both traditions hold.
Yale Divinity School
A full concert with the Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen: Persian classical singing on the mystical poets, set against a jazz trio.
BIMHUIS
A setting of the line by Nasimi in which the poet says he does not fit into this world.
Fargana Qasimova
The Sufi's destination, in the Sindhi and Punjabi devotional repertoire she was raised in.
Fanna-Fi-Allah performing an extended qawwali naubat of Mast Mast, live in London.
Fanna-Fi-Allah's well-known rendition of the qawwali Mast Mast.
A full reading of the Simtud Durar, the mawlid text his gatherings are built on, sung with the assembly.
Hamza Yusuf reflects on meaning and choice on his podcast.
Hamza Yusuf
A complete televised mehfil-e-sama in which Abdullah Niazi, Waqas Niazi and their party sing a sequence of qawwalis for the month of Rabi ul Awwal.
ARY Qtv
A song from El Helbawy's own channel, sung in the Egyptian munshid style he learned from his father.
Ali El helbawy
Amir Khusrau's verse asking the beloved to dye the singer in his own colour, in a setting that has been sung at the Delhi shrines for centuries.
Two of the spirits called in the lila, sung one into the other on the guembri.
Hamid El Kasri Officiel
One of the song cycles of the lila, the night-long Gnawa ceremony, recorded in session.
A full dawn supplication, recorded before the Sunday fajr prayer.
A full rendition of the qawwali tradition's founding piece, Amir Khusrau's Mun Kunto Maula, sung by Abdullah Manzoor Niazi with Waqas Niazi and party at a concert in Atlanta.
A full concert with her ensemble at Harvard Divinity School, with spoken introductions to the modes.
A book-discussion conversation between Abdal Hakim Murad and Dr William Barylo on Islam's relationship to global capitalism.
Cambridge Muslim College
Ninety minutes with Asia Society: Mahsa Vahdat sings the Persian mystical poets and speaks about singing them as a woman forbidden to sing solo at home.
Asia Society
An hour-long author event in which he reopens familiar gospel sayings word by word in Aramaic and shows how much the Greek and English renderings narrowed them.
Banyen Books & Sound
A Martin Luther King Day talk connecting Sufi and interfaith perspectives on justice.
Discussion of Rumi's poetry and the relevance of his teaching on love as a unifying force for today's world.
Twenty minutes at TEDxUGA, and the shortest way into his reading voice.
TEDx
A short talk on recognising and working against the ego in daily spiritual practice.
Peter Adamson asks him where Sufism and philosophy stop being two things.
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
A talk on gratitude, published by his own order, the Sufi Ruhaniat International.
Sufi Ruhaniat International
A full qawwali night at the Arts Council in Karachi, more than two hours long.
Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi
Mooralala Marwada sings the Kabir bhajan Raatab Meehada Vathha in a studio recording for the Kabir Project.
A live qawwali recorded with his party, with the handclapping and the rising repetitions the form is built on.
Bharoot
A television interview with Dhafer Youssef about his music and background for TRT World's Rendez-vous series.
A short answer to a woman's question, and an example of how he handles a personal appeal in public.
Radical Middle Way
A full lecture by Abdal Hakim Murad on how traditional Islamic spirituality can engage with and survive the modern world.
A wide-ranging interview in which he traces his own immersion in the Sufi path.
A documentary on the friendship between Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, with Omid Safi, Kabir and Camille Helminski and Leili Anvar.
Omid Safi
Nearly two hours of reading and talking about how the poems came into English.
University of California Television
An hour on friendship as the centre of Rumi's work, and on what a translator owes the original.
Sounds True
A full evening of the tanbur maqams with Pejman Hadadi on tombak and daf, recorded live in New York on 23 November 2024.
Robert Browning Associates
A full evening of Ottoman classical music with the Bîrûn Ensemble, the group he trains each year in Venice.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
A performance of Persian Sufi song and string playing given before an audience at the Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas.
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas
A complete concert of trance-inducing Kurdish repertoire for tanbur and percussion with Pejman Hadadi, presented by the Society for Indoamerican Arts.
Society for Indoamerican Arts
An hour-long studio concert recorded for TRT Istanbul Radio's Sazlar Calinir, with Ahmet Ozhan accompanied by the station's ensemble.
Dr. Akif AKÇA
Ahmet Ozhan sings the sufi repertoire at the Seb-i Arus commemoration of Rumi in Konya, 7 December 2024.
KONTV
Habib Umar bin Hafiz teaches the third lesson in his series on the Prophetic biography, with English translation.
Habib Omar Bin Hafidh
A Humanitas Lecture Series panel discussion (UC Santa Barbara) on unusual, intermingled sensory experiences as they appear in the thought and practice of figures within the Jewish, Islamic and Christian mystical traditions, considered comparatively rather than through any one tradition.
University of California Television (UCTV)
Live festival footage of Dhafer Youssef performing SharQ Serenade at the North Sea Jazz Festival.
A full performance of the mugham mode Shushtar, sung with the traditional ensemble.
A short interview on the poets she sets, and on what it costs an Iranian woman to sing them in public.
vpro Vrije Geluiden extra
A song from Qadheet Hayati, words by Ahmad Rami and music by Riadh al-Sunbati.
vrije geluiden
A complete live concert recording of Dhafer Youssef performing with tabla player Zakir Hussain and clarinetist Hüsnü Şenlendirici in Ludwigsburg.
A talk connecting Sufi mysticism to the ecological crisis, from Vaughan-Lee's later archive.
A full concert of more than three hours, recorded in New York in April 2026, in the qawwali lineage the Akram brothers inherited from their family.
The full session she led at the 2018 Festival of Faiths, a sohbet followed by a dhikr, the remembrance of God with the breath.
Festival of Faiths
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