In the graceful sixteenth-century Qubbat al-Ghouri (Al Ghoury Dome), located in the wholly authentic, utterly crowded Khan El Khalili district, musicians from 11 countries gathered to grace the ears ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

In the latest of our playlist series, John Doran takes a look at Syrian Sufi chant, Egyptian electro disco, Sumerian death metal and psychedelic Moroccan gnawa The melancholic, retro-manic disco of ...

Rituals of Sufi orders worldwide are shaped by the environment in which they emerged. In Sudan, the Hamed el Nil is one of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From the Sufi chants of Sudan, to the sacred sounds of India, from Japanese Zen flute to Benedictine ...