Jashn e Khusrau, a festival of Poetry and Music as part of Delhi urban renewal programme
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
The Jashn e Khusrau, organized by Aga Khan Trust for Culture in collaboration with the India International Centre, and with co-funding from the Ford Foundation, drew larger crowds. The Jashn e Khusrau brought together, for the first time, an exclusive assembly of khanqahi qawwal with different dargah affiliations, each performing a repertoire of Amir Khusrau’s kalaam in their distinctive style.
AKDN
India, 4 March 2010 - The Jashn e Khusrau, which celebrates the Sufiana kalaam (mystical poetry of Islam) of Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), rendered in the khanqah of his beloved pir, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238-1325), and which has been kept alive for over 700 years by khanqahi qawwali at sama-e-mehfil (Sufi music communion) of the Chistiya silsilah, will run from 4-14 March 2010.