Sufi Message Of Love And Peace Is Being Spread By Pakistani Musicians By Blending Sufi And Rock Music To Create Soulful Melodies
Sufi Message Of Love And Peace Is Being Spread By Pakistani Musicians By Blending Sufi And Rock Music To Create Soulful Melodies: Pakistan’s Consul General in Chicago, Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, , who was invited to speak to students about Sufi literature and music in South Asia, referred to the history of Sufism and how the Sufis contributed in spreading islam in the region during the 10th and 11th centuries, has boosted Sufi music at the Northwestern University.
He also talked about the contribution of of Sufi music and its components like Qawali and Ghazal.
In this context, the consul general praised the contributions of Pakistani artists like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Abida Parveen, and Mehdi Hassan in promoting Sufi music.
He added that the age of internet had given Sufi music singers greater space to popularize this genre. He also spoke about how the Coke Studio had helped revive folk and Sufi music among the new generation.
At the conclusion of the event, the consul general specially thanked Dr. Daniel Majchrowicz, Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture, and Dr. RajivKinra, Professor of History of Northwestern University, for organizing his talk at the University.
Northwestern University, with more than three thousand faculty members and twenty one thousand enrolled students, is ranked at number eleven in national universities of United States. There are a number of Pakistan students studying at the University.
Sufi music is the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets, like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow and Khwaja Ghulam Farid.
Qawwali is the most well known form of Sufi music, and is most commonly found in the Sufi culture in South Asia. 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 practices. 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.
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