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Terminology. Qawl (Arabic: قَوْل) is an "utterance (of the prophet)", Qawwāl is someone who often repeats (sings) a Qaul, Qawwāli is what a Qawwāl sings.. Origins. Delhi's Sufi saint Amir Khusrow of the Chisti order of Sufis is credited with fusing the Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Indian traditions in the late 13th century in India to create Qawwali as we know it today.
Wali. A wali ( Arabic: وَلِيّ, romanized : walī; plural أَوْلِيَاء, ʾawliyāʾ) is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate a saint, otherwise referred to by the more literal "friend of God ". [1] [2] [3] When the Arabic definite article al ( ال) is added, it refers to one of the names of God in Islam, Allah – al-Walī ...
Yunus Emre has exercised immense influence on new formed Turkish literature, which was a combination of Persian and Arabic languages from his own day until the present, because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmed Yesevi and Sultan Walad, one of the first known poets to have composed works in the spoken Old Anatolian Turkish of his own age and region rather than in only Persian or Arabic.
Habib al-Ajami (d. 738, buried in Basra) Abu Bakr al-Aydarus (1447–1508, buried in Aden, the patron saint of Aden, credited with introducing Qadiri Sufism to Ethiopia and coffee to the Arab world) Ahmad al-Badawi (1200–1276, buried in Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque, most popular saint in Egypt)
Rostom ( Rustam Khan ), Safavid viceroy of Kartli, Georgia. Wāli, Wā'lī or vali (from Arabic: والي Wālī) is an administrative title that was used in the Muslim world (including the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates and the Ottoman Empire) to designate governors of administrative divisions. It is still in use in some countries ...
Muslim leader. Influenced by. Somuncu Baba. Influenced. Akshamsaddin. Haji Bayram Veli or Wali ( Turkish: Hacı Bayram-ı Veli) (1352–1430) was an Ottoman poet, Sufi saint, and the founder of the Bayrami Order. [1] He also composed a number of hymns ( ilahi in Turkish ). [1] Part of a series on Islam.
An illustrated headpiece from a mid-18th century collection of ghazals and rubāʻīyāt. The ghazal is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. Ghazals often deal with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation from the beloved and the beauty of love in spite of that pain.
Sama ( Turkish: Sema; Persian, Urdu and Persian: سَماع, romanized : samā‘un) is a Sufi ceremony performed as part of the meditation and prayer practice dhikr. [clarification needed] Sama means "listening", while dhikr means "remembrance". [1] These performances often include singing, playing instruments, dancing, recitation of poetry ...