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At least according to one scholar, Jacob M. Landau, not only is secular and folk music found in regions throughout the Muslim world, but Islam has its own distinctive category of music -- the "Islamic music" or the "classical Islamic music" — that began development "with the advent of Islam about 610 CE" as a "new art". [40]
Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi (Urdu: وحید ظفر قاسمی) is a Pakistani Qari and na'at khawan, [1] [2] [3] a performer of poetry in praise of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Qasmi recites in both in Urdu and Arabic languages.
Mustehsan was born on 5 September 1992 in Quetta, Balochistan, in a Shia Muslim family of Urdu-speaking parents. [15] [16] Her mother, Huma Mustehsan, is a doctor, and father, Kazim Mustehsan, is a retired brigadier from the Pakistan Army, and a recipient of Sitara-i-Imtiaz, the third highest honour and civilian award of the country. [10]
Mehdi Hassan Khan NI PP TI HI (Urdu: مہدی حسن خاں; 18 July 1927 – 13 June 2012), known as Mehdi Hassan, was a Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer of great renown. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of ghazal singing, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Hassan is referred to as the Shahenshah-e ...
Ali Haider (Urdu:علی حیدر, born 22 September 1967) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, actor, fashion designer and television host. [ 1 ] He had a number of hit songs in the 1990s, including Poorani Jeans , which appears on his 1993 album Sandesa .
Aiman (Arabic: أيمن) is a gender neutral name with origins in Arabic, Urdu and Kazakh. [3] [4] It is an alternative Latin alphabet spelling of the name Ayman. [5]In Arabic, it is derived from the Semitic root (ي م ن) for right, and literally means righteous, blessed or lucky.
Laila Khan, a celebrated Pashto singer, who has also sung in Urdu, Arabic, and French. Pashto music is predominantly found in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and in major urban centers of Pakistan, including Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, and Karachi. There is a long oral tradition of Pashto folk music, which includes genres such as ...
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.