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<b>Jahan-e-Khusrau:</b> Music of the mystics

Jahan-e-Khusrau returns to Delhi after two years with new sounds and compositions

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Veenu Sandhu
On March 24, Arab ki Sarai, the 16th century monument located within the premises of the Humayun’s Tomb complex in Delhi, will come alive with the sounds of Sufi music.

The monument, said to have been built by Humayun’s wife, Haji Begum, to accommodate the 300 Arabs whom she had brought from her pilgrimage to Mecca, will host Jahan-e-Khusrau, the annual Sufi music festival started by filmmaker-designer Muzaffar Ali in 2011. The festival returns to Delhi after an interval of two years. Its last edition was also held at Arab ki Sarai.

This year, the festival is dedicated to 12th century Sufi