Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of
rock music that combines rock with classical Islamic
Sufi music traditions. It emerged in the early 1990s and became widely popular in the late 1990s in
Pakistan and
Turkey. The term "Sufi rock" was coined in 1993 by writer
Nadeem F. Paracha to define the Pakistani band
Junoon, who pioneered the process of fusing conventional
rock music with folk
Sufi music and imagery.[1][2][3]