He has produced many programmes on Qawwali and Sufi music for television. He has a degree in South Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was also a lead writer on Britain’s first Asian soap, Family Pride, and wrote and produced the groundbreaking drama TURNING WORLD for Channel4 television.
He came to Britain in 1967 from Pakistan. He works as an independent producer and writer and has produced several documentary series, notably a series on Islam entitled Islamic Conversations. Mahmood Jamal was born in Lucknow, India. Mahmood Jamal will discuss unique and exclusive video recordings of some of the great Qawwals of modern times, including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Aziz Mian, Munshi Raziuddin and sons, and Murli. This lecture and screening introduces the Sufi poetry, poets and the history of Qawwali music and its message in an entertaining and fruitful encounter through live talk, videos and poetry recital. The music of Qawwali is inextricably linked to the lyrics or poems that are sung in Persian, Hindi, Urdu, and Panjabi. Venue: Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) Room: Wolfson Lecture TheatreĪ multimedia presentation of some sublime Qawwali music, supplemented and explained by poet and Qawwali scholar Mahmood Jamal.