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Sufi music refers to the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow, and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. Qawwali is the best-known form of Sufi music and is most commonly found in the Sufi culture in South Asia.
Similarly, Abu Sa`id, (357 A.H.) (967 C.E.) was born in Mayhana, a town near Sarakhs, in Iran, bordering Turkmenistan. He is noted for establishing a rule for conduct in the khanaqah and also for the introduction of music (sama'), poetry and dance, as part of the Sufi collective devotional ritual of dhikr.
Whirling Dervishes in Istanbul, Turkey Whirling Dervishes, at Rumi Fest 2007. Sufi whirling (or Sufi turning) (Turkish: Semazen borrowed from Persian Sama-zan, Sama, meaning listening, from Arabic, and zan, meaning doer, from Persian) is a form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order and ...
The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire are primarily in Persian, Urdu, and Hindi, [13] [14] although Sufi poetry appears in local languages as well (including Punjabi, Saraiki, and dialects of northern India like Braj Bhasha and Awadhi.) [15] [16] The sound of regional language qawwali can be totally different from that of mainstream ...
Some Sufi orders [126] engage in ritualized dhikr ceremonies, or sema. Sema includes various forms of worship such as recitation, singing (the most well known being the Qawwali music of the Indian subcontinent), instrumental music, dance (most famously the Sufi whirling of the Mevlevi order), incense, meditation, ecstasy, and trance. [127]
The Dances of Universal Peace were first formulated by Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The very first dance took place on 16 March, 1968 in San Francisco , California. [ 9 ] The original dances were strongly influenced by Samuel Lewis' spiritual relationships with Ruth St. Denis , a modern dance pioneer, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and ...
Sufi whirling: Whirling is a Sufi purification practice most commonly associated with the Whirling Dervishes of the Mevlevi Order of Sufi. Spiritual belly dance components of Dancemeditation consists of the following subjects and exercises. Vibration Rocking: Rocking the body in parts or as a whole.
There are similarities between the rituals of Jilala and other therapeutic-Moroccan musical groups with the phenomenon of Italian tarantism, for example the release and wild dance, the fact that the therapy has to be renewed each year, the fact that healers are musicians, and it gives a therapeutic value to the colors, the music and dance.