The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...

Rumi, the 13th-century mystic poet, is center stage in a show that event organizers describe as a “multidimensional feast of poetry, music, dance, and story.” Providing the different courses for the ...

The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...

In a modern world filled with global uncertainty, inter-religious misunderstanding and subsequent animosity, music is a rare universal truth. Realizing the mystic words of medieval Muslim poet Jalal ...

Sufism, is recognized as the mystical branch of Islam, and is often called the "science of the heart." Rumi’s path, which later on became the Mevlevi Order (or Whirling Dervishes), is built on three ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy winner Arooj Aftab about finding musical inspiration in the words of the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet Rumi and about how her Pakistani heritage informs her work.

For Umer Piracha, sufi music was a constant soundtrack as he grew up. He was born and raised in Multan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan that’s also home to a rich history of Sufism, a mystic ...