Thread by @desmukh

The praise of Ali in a few South Asian musical forms

1/ Manqabat in the form of Dhrupad -- the oldest Hindustani classical vocal genre. This is in Raag Malkauns performed by Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar

2/ Manqbat as the bandish of a khyal in raag Bairagi Bhairav set to jhaptaal (10 beat rhythm cycle), performed by Shafqat Ali son of Ustad Salamat Ali Khan.

This musical phrase is said to be inspired by a lion's movement:

3/ Qasida on Ali in the form of a Chakwali dhol geet

"Sare jag to Ali da ucha shan"

4/ Manqabat in the form of sufi rock. This is Sadiq Hussain's song and music video "Jaanam fida e Haidari"

5/ Bollywood song "Ya Ali" from the 2006 movie Gangster, in the filmi qawwali sub genre

(Tune borrowed from a Kuwaiti song called "Ya Ghali")

6/ Felt like wandering beyond South Asia to Iran. These are members of the syncretic Yarsan/Ahl e Haqq spiritual community in the Kurdish speaking part of western Iran

Brace yourself if you haven't heard this before

7/ Going further west, This is a Turkish mystical poem "Haydar Haydar" in the Alevi-Bektashi tradition performed by Turkish musician Ali Ekber Çiçek

8/ Let's head back east now to the mountains of north Pakistan. This a musical troupe of Nizari Ismailis from Hunza, Gilgit and Chitral performing a ginan (hymn) in Burushaski by Nasir Hunzai combined with a Farsi ghazal by Rumi

9/ To the Arabian Peninsula now. This is an event to celebrate the birth of Ali in the town of Saham in northern Oman. The participants are performing the Malid, a traditional devotional poetry and dance form

10/ Further west in Yemen, here is traditional poem in Arabic about Ali being sung in the street accompanied with daf frame drums

أين الذي من حبه فقد نجى
أين ابن عمي أين مصباح الدجى
أين الذي من يعرفه اهل الحجاب
سيفي ودرعي وأخي وصهري