Word: sufi
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...Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook Night Song (Real World/Caroline). Khan, a huge star in his native Pakistan, is a singer of qawwali--Sufi religious music that, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Here, with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan sings of earthly love; the spiraling, urgent songs are mostly in Urdu, but Khan's passion and purpose need no translation...
...little minds. With more mental channels to choose from than cable TV, Dick Morris could argue the case round or square or Rosicrucian or vegetarian, as long, one suspects, as the money was consistently green. Or maybe Morris was just beguiled by his own genius for spinning like a Sufi to whatever moral music the customer wished to play...
...humor, come through. So too with music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a huge star in his native Pakistan; but although he speaks no English, and his songs are often in Urdu, he has built a following of hipster fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Some American rock stars, perhaps seeking to fill a spiritual void in their own music, have gravitated to Khan. Eddie Vedder, leader of the prickly rock band Pearl Jam, sings two elegiac...
Franklin says she was fortunate enough to find a physics professor who was on the same wavelength as her and shared her embrace of the unconventional. She spent hours in his office solving physics problems. He later went on to become a Sufi dancer, while she went on to become a particle physicist...
...projection of humankind's limited hopes and fears; in short, an idol. Seeking to escape this dilemma, mystical traditions, which emerged in all three religions, taught that God was to be experienced -- albeit by a dedicated elite -- rather than defined. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the mystical Sufi movement was the dominant force within Islam. In the 15th century, facing persecution and exile, European Jews found solace in the mystical writings known as the Cabala. Even Western Christianity, which has been strongly suspicious of ineffability, had its mystical tradition, exemplified by such figures as the German Dominican Meister Eckehart...