Shemeem Burney Abbas




Read about and purchase The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India at the UT Press website.




reshma Hir-ranjha Hinda Bai Jeevi Bai

Reshma of Mast Qalandar

Hir-Ranjha: love scene

Hinda Bai-Bali

Jeevni Bai

faqiriani nusrat faqir

Begum Faqiriani

Singing in female voices: Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Alan Faqir on yak-tarā. Courtesy of Sind University, Jamshoro

abida sushila bhagi

Abida Parvin in concert

Sushila Mehtani

Mai Bhagi

kolhi1 kolhi2 trance

Kolhi women's performance

Kolhi women at Shah Latif's shrine

Sidi musician's trance

lights

Melā Chirāgã 'Urs


female voice in sufi ritual

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