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Sufi rock
Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of rock music that combines rock with classical Islamic Sufi music traditions. It emerged in the early 1990s and became widely popular in the late 1990s in
History#
It is mostly based on the poetry of famous sufi poets such as Rumi, Hafez, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Bulleh Shah, Waris Shah and even Kabir and is mostly sung in languages such as Urdu, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Persian and Turkish.
See also#
- Pakistani rock
- Culture of India
- Music of Pakistan
- Music of India
- Pakistani hip hop
- Culture of Pakistan
- Taqwacore
External links#
*The New Sufiana – Indian Express
- Genre family
- Fusion music genres, Indian styles of music, Pakistani rock music, Pakistani styles of music, Rock music genres, Sufi music