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  "name": "Amir Khusrau",
  "description": "Amir Khusrau appears 2 times in our Qawwali list, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
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      "title": "Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni",
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      "whyItMatters": "Written by the man usually credited with inventing the form, welding Persian, Arabic, Turkic and Indian singing into one thing. Seven hundred years later every qawwal party still has it in the set.",
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