Sufi
Sufi music is the devotional music of Sufism, the mystical tradition within Islam, sung to express love for God and to bring listeners toward a trance-like state.
Its best known form is qawwali from Pakistan and India, where a lead singer and chorus build intensity over harmonium, tabla and hand claps, using verses by Sufi poets. Other forms include the music for the whirling ceremonies of Turkey's Mevlevi order. In South Asian pop and film music, 'Sufi' also describes modern songs that borrow this poetry and vocal style.
Artists it is known for: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Abida Parveen, Sabri Brothers.
- Family
- Indian
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- South Asia, Turkey and the wider Islamic world
- Also called
- Sufi music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have sufi among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Sufi artists
A.R. Rahman
Atif Aslam
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Salim–Sulaiman
Mohit Chauhan
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Asim Azhar
Jagjit Singh
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The sufi artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.