He then revealed why he loves the music on a more personal level. Khusro used qawwali to attract people towards Islam." "Hinduism relies heavily on music such as bhajans. Jamal revealed how Sufi saints linked themselves to this musical form of devotion, he mused about how Islam would not have been able to spread through the Subcontinent without music. The session was finally starting to get interesting. "It was developed in the khanka's of the subcontinent, developed in its current form by Hazrat Amir Khusro, who can be regarded as the first-ever qawwal." He then went on talk about its early stages. "When Mehfil-e-Sama met Sufism, qawwali was born." "Qawwali's roots can be found in 12th century Baghdad," he revealed. When Lucknow-born Mahmood Jamal started speaking, he began with the history of qawwali.
The mic started working half way through her introduction - she had refused to stop speaking, not seeing any problem in the fact that no one could hear her except herself and the man she was introducing. A man sporting a walrus-moustache and a confused look on his face was checking the audio equipment, five minutes before the session was scheduled to start.Ī middle-aged lady spoke into a mic that wasn't working, trying to introduce the speaker. "Hello…mic check," boomed a voice at the presentation on 'Qawwali Music and the Sufi Poetry Tradition' on the second day of the fifth Karachi Literature Festival.
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