Qawwali by Meraj Ahmed and Party
Meraj Ahmed and Party














Meraj Ahmad Nizami, Bulbul-e-Chisht, normally known as Meraj, is the most senior among the descendants of Tan Ras Khan, the famous nineteenth-century court singer. "Nizami" indicates his attachment to the saint Nizamuddin Auliya, while "Bulbul-e-Chisht" is his honorific title conferred upon him by the late Khwaja Hasan Nizami, who was a famous Sufi sheikh. (Source: Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt, 1986. Sufi music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and meaning in Qawwali, Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology.)