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Qawwali vs Ghazal - What's the difference?

qawwali | ghazal |

As nouns the difference between qawwali and ghazal

is that qawwali is a style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium while ghazal is a poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.

qawwali

English

(wikipedia qawwali)

Noun

  • (music, uncountable) A style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.
  • *1994 , Simon Broughton, World Music: The Rough Guide :
  • *:Jameela Siddiqi listens to qawwali and talks to its performers […].
  • (music, countable) A song in this style.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 223:
  • *:They are singing not a religious qawwali but its secular and lay cousin.
    • English words containing Q not followed by U

    ghazal

    English

    (wikipedia ghazal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
  • * 2001 , Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red , tr. Erda? M. Göknar:
    • Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.
  • * 2005 , Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown , Vintage 2006, p. 100:
    • A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.

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