Memories of Qawwali – A Tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
The following was a piece I wrote to commemorate the death of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Memories of Qawwali – A Tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan August 16th 2007 marked the 10th death anniversary of one of the masters of the qawwali genre of Muslim devotional music. Putting aside all the fiqhi (jurisprudential) discussions about music and the permissibility or otherwise of it (although one finds that Imam al-Ghazali and Shaykh Abdal Ghani al-Nablusi make an exception for…