Mubarak Ali Khan
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Mubarak Ali Khan one of the foremost Pakistani Qawwals
Qawwali
Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia, particularly in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Pakistan, Hyderabad, Delhi, and other parts of northern India...

 of his time, was the father of Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan, uncle of Qawwali
Qawwali
Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia, particularly in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Pakistan, Hyderabad, Delhi, and other parts of northern India...

 musicians Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan was a member of a well-known family of Qawwali musicians. He was the younger brother of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the son of Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, the nephew of Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan, and the father of Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.-Short Biography:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan...

, and the brother of Fateh Ali Khan
Fateh Ali Khan
Fateh Ali Khan may refer to:* Bade Fateh Ali Khan * Fateh Ali Khan * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * Fateh Ali Khan Umrani, leader of the Umrani tribe of Pakistan...

 and Salamat Ali Khan. He is also the great-uncle of Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a Pakistani musician, and primarily a singer of Qawwali, a devotional music of the Sufis. He is the nephew of the late Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In addition to Qawwali, he also performs ghazals and other light music...

. He was born in Lyallpur
Faisalabad
Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...

, Punjab
Punjab (British India)
Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between West Punjab, which went to Pakistan, and East Punjab, which went to India...

, British India. After the death of Fateh Ali Khan in 1964, he took over Nusrat's training in classical music and Qawwali until his death in 1971.
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