Listening While Muslim

02/12/2025

Listening While Muslim: Mehfil
featuring Ronnie Malley and Tex “Tahir” Allen
Saturday Feb 15 2025
Houston

In the blessed places of the world, people seeking healing and the divine gather in spiritual circles called Mehfils. These gatherings of sohbat and good company resonate with sound, music, dance, ecstasy, and reflection.

Listening While Muslim: Mehfil comes to Houston, celebrating the robust spiritual traditions of these diverse communities. Join this sonic journey as Asad Ali Jafri (DJ Ase Wonder) and Abdul-Rehman Malik host Palestinian multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Malley and Houston jazz legend Tex ‘Tahir’ Allen.

Experience music that nourishes the heart and food that feeds the soul as we explore the power of these spiritual traditions in this moment of heartbreak and fracture.

05/03/2024

We’re back in DC for IlluminAsia at the National Museum of Asian Art on Friday May 10th!

Join us for this special edition of Listening While Muslim: Music as Medicine with special guest Professor Tazeen Ayub as we explore the power of music as a healing force. We will dig into traditional understandings, musician’s intentions, communal healing, and contemporary modalities. Come listen with attentive ears and an open heart!

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04/11/2024

Chicagoland, we will be at this year’s Creating Justice at Oakton College in Des Plaines on Friday, April 12 at 4pm!

Join us for a special ‘Creating Justice’ listening party that explores social justice movements, stories of solidarity and oneness as articulated in music and art.

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04/11/2024

If you missed our LWM: Palestine in Houston, you can check it out here!

Listening While Muslim: Palestine featuring Serena Rasoul and Wanees Zarour January 27 2024 MATCH - Houston Presented by Risala Foundation Listening While Muslim…

01/24/2024

Houston - we’re back! With Listening While Muslim: Palestine featuring our friends Serena Rasoul () and Wanees Zarour ().

Join us for a journey into popular (and unpopular) culture to explore the centrality of Palestine to peace movements and social justice, as articulated in music and art. This will be a carefully curated experience to bring you right into the current moment with stories of solidarity and oneness.

Special thanks to for hosting us again!

09/28/2023

Join us for a special Listening While Muslim as part of the Sufi Music Festival this Sunday, October 1st!

03/23/2023

Join us in DC for a special Ramadan listening party as part of the Words Beats & Life Festival. Presented in partnership with at . We’ll have complimentary iftar/dinner + chai. Free with registration, but limited capacity!

09/16/2022

Listening While Muslim, live and sold out in Houston, 9.16.22. Livestream on Mixcloud, link in bio!

09/28/2021

In case you missed it, the audio of our last Listening While Muslim, Martyrs and Marsiya in Muharram is up on Mixcloud:

In this special edition, Listening While Muslim takes a deep dive into the sounds of the sacred month of Muharram. We explore the different ways in which the legacy of Imam Hussain’s martyrdom has been memorialized through poetry and song around the globe. Join Abdul-Rehman Malik and Asad Ali Jafr...

09/22/2021

Up Next!

Curated by Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Umi’s Archive is truly an act of love. Drawing on the remarkable life of her mother, Amina Amatul Haqq, Dr. Su’ad hasn’t just given us a insight into one person’s experience of being Black and Muslim, but has given us access to the vibrant, transformational and radical contours of Islam as shaped, nurtured and lived by African-American Muslims and the communities that surrounded them. “Umi,” she writes, “was a creative and loving person and Umi's Archive is also a dreamspace and a labor of love - love for Umi, of course, and love for what she loved: her peoples, knowledge, justice and liberation.”

As the online exhibition draws to a close, Listening While Muslim joins Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer to celebrate by listening to the music which was the soundtrack of Umi’s life and the communities to which she dedicated her life. On the anniversary of Umi’s return home (may God grant her joy everlasting), Dr. Su’ad will guide us to listen as Umi did – and be inspired. As Dr. Su’ad says, “I offer Umi's Archive as a space where we can imagine those things are possible.” Join us as we listen and imagine.

08/29/2021

Join us for a special edition of Listening While Muslim for a deep dive into the sounds of the sacred month of Muharram. We explore the different ways in which the legacy of Imam Hussain’s martyrdom has been memorialized through poetry and song around the globe. Join Abdul-Rehman Malik and Asad Ali Jafri for their personal journeys through these traditions that are just as alive today as they have been for centuries. Co-curated by Hira Jafri.

08/06/2021

We're hoping to see many of you in Detroit this Saturday, August 7th, but if you can't make it, do check out the livestream here at 4pm Eastern Time:

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