Jameela Siddiqi presents two Sony Award-winning programmes, first broadcast on BBC World Service. A mahfil, a late-night Sufi gathering in a private home in Karachi.

Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...

There is probably no Sufi practice that has historically been more evident and more controversial than sama’, or listening to music as a means of altering one’s state of consciousness. Sama’ ...

The critically acclaimed Pakistani documentary ‘Songs of the Sufi’ was screened at the Theatre Of Digital Art (TODA) at Souk Madinat in Dubai on January 12. It marked a significant milestone in the ...