According to Grammy Award-winner Chandrika Tandon and other devotional musicians, the melodic repetition of Vedic mantras, ...

Another form of zikr, primarily practiced by the Chisti Order, which presided mainly over the Indian subcontinent, is the Sufi practice of using music to achieve ‘ecstatic contact with God’. However, ...

Music, and Folk Art for two decades. In the mid-2010s, he became the creative director of Beit El Sehemy Creative Centre. Moreover, he established the Sufi chanting group Egyptian Mawlawiyah in 1994.

30, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag) Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the ...

Muslim hard-liners’ threats have forced a shrine of the mystic Sufi branch of Islam to abandon the customary devotional music and dance program during its annual celebration. The shrine dedicated to ...