For centuries, traditional Sufi chanting of the Near East has been used as a way of expressing religious devotion. Sufi music has also been appreciated in concerts and films in a form that is ...

Jason Hamacher wasn't trained as a photographer, a musicologist or a member of a religious community. The former Frodus drummer simply felt... Before War, A Punk Drummer Preserved Syrian Chants Before ...

Hussein Soliman, head of the Egyptian Mevlevi Order, creates a sacred atmosphere. He invites everyone to explore their inner ...

“As soon as he started to grow, he saw us all whirling, his uncles and cousins. When he first started to walk when he was about one year old, he started to whirl. I started to teach him how to move ...

It’s March 24, the final Monday night of Ramadan, and Barzakh Cafe — a cozy venue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn — is packed for a qawwali, the Sufi devotional music tradition that originated in ...

AL AAROUI, Morocco, September 5, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- The air hummed, not with modern electric currents, but with a mesmerizing symphony of devotional chants. The invocations rose and fell, ...

Chant performers Mohammed Al-Wahaibi, Yahya Bihaqi, and Ali Al-Alawi presented a selection of poems and religious chants ...

Enter Baghdad's leading Sufi mosque on a recent evening and the first thing that catches your eye is a man, sitting cross-legged in a corner of the courtyard. The blanket in front of him is filled ...

Through an intensified programme during the month of Ramadan, Mevlevi whirling dervish Hussein Soliman presents evenings of Sufi dance and chanting, inviting audiences into a deeper spiritual ...