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• Barakah (Sami Yusuf album) 2016 Album

  A studio album by Sami Yusuf released on 1 February 2016 by Andante Records with fourteen tracks and marketed as volume 1 of his Spiritique Collection; it includes devotional pieces such as 'Hamziyya', 'Ya Rasul Allah' and 'Taha' and the Turkish 'Ben Yürürüm Yane Yane', with videos for several of them.

• One (Maher Zain album) 2016 Album

  Maher Zain's third studio album, released by Awakening on 6 June 2016 after four years of work, in English, Arabic and Turkish editions; its title stands for one God, one humanity and one world, and it includes 'Peace Be Upon You', the Moroccan traditional 'Allah Ya Moulana' and 'I'm Alive' with Atif Aslam.

• Muhammad: The Messenger of God (soundtrack) 2015 Album

  The soundtrack of Majid Majidi's Iranian film Muhammad: The Messenger of God, about the Prophet's childhood, composed by A. R. Rahman with the Palestinian Le Trio Joubran and released by Sony DADC on 23 December 2015 with twenty tracks; Rahman worked on it for a year and a half, recording in India, Iran, Germany, France and Egypt with 200 musicians, and Movie Music UK named it one of the best Asian scores of 2015.

• Tajdar-e-Haram (Atif Aslam, Coke Studio 2015) 2015 Song

  The Pakistani singer Atif Aslam's rendition of the qawwali Tajdar-e-Haram, in praise of the Prophet, on the first episode of Coke Studio Pakistan's eighth season, released on 15 August 2015 as a tribute to the Sabri Brothers' classic performance; the first Pakistani music video to pass 100 million views on YouTube.

• Forgive Me 2012 Album

  Maher Zain's second studio album, released by Awakening on 1 April 2012 with fourteen songs and bonus tracks in Arabic, Turkish and Malay, including 'Freedom', 'Number One For Me' and 'So Soon', a song about orphans; it was certified multi-platinum in Malaysia and sold more than 100,000 copies.

• Salaam (Sami Yusuf album) 2012 Album

  Sami Yusuf's fifth studio album, released by ETM International on 22 December 2012 with sixteen tracks; he described it as celebrating 'outward multiplicity and inward unity' and peace between people, it went platinum in South-East Asia, and a Turkish edition carried five songs he re-recorded in Turkish.

• I Believe (Irfan Makki album) 2011 Album

  The Canadian singer-songwriter Irfan Makki's second album, released by Awakening on 28 July 2011 with thirteen tracks, among them 'I Believe' with Maher Zain, 'Palestine' and the Urdu 'Lab Pae Aati'; its opening song, 'Waiting for the Call', became the subject of an internet hoax attributing it to Michael Jackson, which Makki denied in 2016.

• Insan (Hamza Namira album) 2011 Album

  The Egyptian singer-songwriter Hamza Namira's second album, released by Awakening in 2011 with sixteen songs in Arabic and Egyptian Arabic, among them 'Insan', 'El-Midan', 'Ala Bab Allah' and 'Hasir Hisarak', and two bonus tracks including a live 'Esmy Masr'; produced by Namira with Mohamed Diab and Hazem Wefy.

• Kun Faya Kun (Rockstar, 2011) 2011 Song

  A qawwali composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2011 Hindi film Rockstar and dedicated to the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, sung by Rahman with Javed Ali, Mohit Chauhan and the Nizami Bandhu to lyrics by Irshad Kamil; written for the scene in which the hero takes refuge at the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi among the qawwals, it won a Mirchi Music Award as a song representing the Sufi tradition.

• Wherever You Are (Sami Yusuf album) 2010 Album

  Sami Yusuf's third official studio album, released on 29 October 2010 by ETM International after his split with Awakening, with fifteen songs in Arabic, English, Turkish and Persian recorded in Britain, Egypt, South Africa and the UAE; it carries new versions of songs issued without his consent on Without You, among them 'You Came To Me' in four languages.

• Thank You Allah 2009 Album

  Maher Zain's debut studio album, released by Awakening Records in November 2009 with thirteen songs and two bonus tracks, mainly in English with versions in Arabic, French, Turkish, Urdu, Malay and Indonesian; it was certified multi-platinum in Malaysia and Indonesia, and songs such as 'Insha Allah' and 'Ya Nabi Salam Alayka' spread worldwide online.

• Without You (Sami Yusuf album) 2009 Album

  An album that Awakening Records issued as Sami Yusuf's third on 17 January 2009, with eleven songs; Sami Yusuf said it came out without his knowledge or consent, called it a compilation of demos and urged fans to boycott it, while the label said it was a complete album and that he was signed to it for five albums; the dispute ended with the contract voided.

• Not Afraid to Stand Alone 2007 Album

  The second album of the American hip-hop group Native Deen, released in November 2007 with twenty-one tracks using percussion only, plus a voice-only version; its themes include praise of God, the hardships and steadfastness of Muslim life, prayer, the hajj, the Prophet and the discrimination Muslims face in America, with guests including Isam Bachiri of Outlandish and Zain Bhikha.

• Something About Life 2007 Album

  The English singer Hamza Robertson's debut album, released by Awakening on 3 July 2007 with nine songs in English and Arabic, blending the sounds of East and West; its songs include 'Our Creation', 'He Is One', 'Morning Prayer' and 'O Allah'.

• An Other Cup 2006 Album

  The twelfth studio album by Yusuf, formerly known as Cat Stevens, released in November 2006 on Ya with Polydor and Atlantic; his first Western pop album since 1978 and his first under the name Yusuf, it reached number 2 in Austria and Germany and number 20 in the United Kingdom.

• Dunya (Nazeel Azami album) 2006 Album

  The English nasheed singer Nazeel Azami's debut album, released by Awakening on 1 September 2006 with ten songs in English, Arabic, Urdu and Bengali; its songs and recitals reflect on personal experiences and on life as a 'seeker' aspiring to be at one with the world of God, joining hamd, naat and folk music.

• Jalwa-e-Janan 2005 Album

  The first religious and spiritual album of the former Pakistani pop singer Junaid Jamshed, recorded in 2005 at QTV and released by Heera Stereo, with naats and supplications in Urdu and Pashto to poetry by Iqbal, Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri and Taqi Usmani; its best-known naat is 'Muhammad Ka Roza Qareeb Aaraha Hai'.

• Khwaja Mere Khwaja 2005 Song

  A Sufi song A. R. Rahman composed in 2005 for Mu'in al-Din Chishti, after fifteen years of visits to his shrine at Ajmer, and sang himself to lyrics by Kashif; the director Ashutosh Gowariker chose it for the 2008 film Jodhaa Akbar, for a scene in which Akbar sees a spiritual light as he watches the singers and dancers.

• My Ummah 2005 Album

  Sami Yusuf's second studio album, released by Awakening on 6 July 2005 in a music version and a percussion version, sung in English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Urdu; its best-known songs include 'Hasbi Rabbi' and 'Mother', it marked his turn to Western instrumentation, and its sales are reported at between five and eight million copies.

• Egypt (Youssou N'Dour album) 2004 Album

  The Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's album with the Egyptian Fathy Salama Orchestra, released by Nonesuch on 8 June 2004 as Egypt and in Senegal as Sant Allah (Thanks to God); its Wolof songs praise the Sufi masters of Senegal such as Amadou Bamba, it won the Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album, and it was boycotted in Senegal and banned in Egypt.

• Al-Mu'allim 2003 Album

  Sami Yusuf's debut album, released by Awakening in 2003 after the label signed him as its first artist; its title, 'The Teacher', refers to the Prophet. The Guardian reported in 2012 that it sold 3 million copies and that, with My Ummah, it led Time magazine to call Sami Yusuf 'Islam's biggest rock star' and set the bar for the young nasheed industry.

• Poetic Pilgrimage 2002 Band United Kingdom

  A British Islamic hip-hop duo founded in London in 2002 by Muneera Rashida and Sukina Abdul Noor, the subject of Hip Hop Hijabis, a 2015 Al Jazeera documentary about two young women finding their place in hip-hop.

• Dil Ki Baat (Junaid Jamshed album) 2002 Album

  The Pakistani singer Junaid Jamshed's last pop album before he left the genre for religious reasons and turned to naat, released on Sony BMG with thirteen songs; the article dates it 2002 and Wikidata 2001.

• Awakening Music (Awakening Records) 2000 Record label

  An England-based record label and music production company founded in 2000 by four entrepreneurs from England and the United States, with offices in London, Cairo and California; it launched the careers of Sami Yusuf, Maher Zain, Mesut Kurtis and Harris J, released Al-Mu'allim (2003), My Ummah (2005), Thank You Allah (2009) and Forgive Me (2012), and passed to a majority stake held by B4U in 2018.

• A Is for Allah 2000 Album

  A double album for Muslim children made by Yusuf Islam and released on 11 July 2000 on his own Mountain of Light imprint, teaching the twenty-eight letters of the Arabic alphabet one by one; he wrote its title song in 1980 at the birth of his first child, Hasanah, the South African singer Zain Bhikha sings on most tracks, and it came with an illustrated alphabet book.

• Dust to Gold (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album) 2000 Album

  A qawwali album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, recorded in 1997 with his ensemble in traditional form and released posthumously by Real World in 2000, with four long pieces, among them 'Khawaja tum hi ho' and 'Noor-e-khuda hai husn-e-sarapa rasool'; critics heard a balance of improvisational freedom and control, though his voice showed strain.

• Prayers of the Last Prophet 1999 Album

  A spoken-word album by Yusuf Islam, the follow-up to The Life of the Last Prophet, gathering the supplications used by the Prophet in the order of the day and night: prayers for sleep and the night vigil, for dawn, for the day (istikhara, travel, visiting the sick, entering the mosque) and for the evening (entering the home, eating, parents and children), ending with blessings on the Prophet; the article dates it 14 September 1999 and Wikidata 2003.

• Us Rah Par 1999 Album

  The Pakistani pop singer Junaid Jamshed's second solo album, released in 1999 on Sony BMG after Vital Signs paused, continuing his work with the writer Shoaib Mansoor, and a critical and commercial success; The Express Tribune wrote in 2017 that its title song foreshadowed his later turn from pop to naat.

• Outlandish 1997 Band Denmark

  A Danish hip-hop group formed in 1997 in Brøndby Strand, first made up of Isam Bachiri and Waqas Ali Qadri, Muslims of Moroccan and Pakistani origin, and the Catholic Lenny Martinez; known for its version of 'Aïcha' and for 'Look into My Eyes' and 'Guantanamo', it played charity concerts with Sami Yusuf and Raihan.

• Rabbani (nasheed group) 1997 Band Malaysia

  A Malaysian nasheed group founded in Kuala Lumpur on 1 March 1997 with thirteen members led by Mohammed Asri Ibrahim, mixing quasi-traditional nasheed with modern elements; its first album sold more than 90,000 copies, its leader died on 13 August 2009, and it released thirteen studio albums between 1997 and 2016.

• Star Rise 1997 Album

  A remix album from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook's Mustt Mustt and Night Song, released by Real World in 1997 after Khan's death that August and dedicated to his memory; its remixers include Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation and Nitin Sawhney.

• Mecca2Medina 1996 Band United Kingdom

  A British Islamic hip-hop and nasheed group founded in London in 1996 by Rakin Fetuga, with three nasheed albums and two hip-hop albums; its members ran workshops for young people and prisoners and, as The Salam Project, organised talks with scholars and comedy nights. Its source states that all its members but one, who was born Muslim, converted to Islam.

• Raihan 1996 Band Malaysia

  A Malaysian nasheed group founded in 1996, known for its debut album Puji-Pujian on Warner Music Malaysia, which its sources call Malaysia's best-selling album, certified twelve times platinum; it recorded with Yusuf Islam and performed at the 1997 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Edinburgh and at the Royal Albert Hall.

• Intoxicated Spirit 1996 Album

  A live album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party, released in 1996 on Shanachie and recorded in Pakistan with voices, tabla and harmonium, which he supported with a North American tour; it was nominated for the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album, and critics heard in it qawwali without the Western trappings.

• Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album) 1996 Album

  A joint album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook, recorded at Real World Studios in 1995 and released on 20 February 1996, his last album on the label in his lifetime; it joins qawwali vocals to Brook's ambient production and Senegalese musicians, reached number 4 on Billboard's world albums chart and was nominated for the 1997 Grammy for Best World Music Album.

• Puji-Pujian 1996 Album

  The debut album of the Malaysian nasheed group Raihan, produced by Farihin Abdul Fattah and released by Warner Music Malaysia between October 1996 and January 1997 with ten songs in Malay; its sources call it the best-selling album in Malaysian history, with more than 750,000 copies there, twelve-times platinum, and double platinum in Singapore.

• The Life of the Last Prophet 1995 Album

  Yusuf Islam's first album after leaving the Western pop business in 1978, released on 1 April 1995 on Mountain of Light/Jamal: a spoken-word telling of the Prophet's life from orphanhood to death in thirty-four sections, with recitations and songs between them, meant to praise the Prophet, to reach young people and those who wish to understand Islam, and to explain why he left the business at the height of his career.

• The Day, the Night, the Dawn, the Dusk 1991 Album

  A qawwali album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on Shanachie, with three long pieces of his own, among them 'Halka Halka Suroor' and 'Mera Piya Ghar Aaya'; the article dates it 1991 and Wikidata 1990, and The Washington Post wrote that its lyrics embrace both Sufi mysticism and matters of the heart.

• Mustt Mustt 1990 Album

  The first qawwali fusion album of the Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with the Canadian guitarist and producer Michael Brook, at Peter Gabriel's suggestion, released by Real World on 12 November 1990; Massive Attack's remix of the title song became the first Urdu song to reach the British charts, and the label claims sales of over 600,000 copies outside the Indian subcontinent.

• Real World Records 1989 Record label

  A British world-music label founded in 1989 by Peter Gabriel and WOMAD's original members at Box, Wiltshire, to give musicians from around the world modern studios and wider audiences; it released Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Mustt Mustt, Night Song, The Last Prophet and Dust to Gold, and had sold over 3 million records by 1999.

• The Sabri Brothers 1978 Band Pakistan

  Pakistani qawwali party (1956–2021) fronted by the brothers Ghulam Farid Sabri and Maqbool Ahmed Sabri and closely connected with the Chishti order; the first qawwals to perform in the West and the first Asian artists at Carnegie Hall (1975), known for 'Tajdar-e-Haram' and 'Bhar Do Jholi Meri', and holders of the Pride of Performance (1978).

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