Urban Qawwali (Urban Quwali)(Urban Quwalli) is a genre of music that fuses Sufi devotional music popular from South Asia mixed with Urban beats from the west.
Urban Qawwali's first emerged in the 90's with DJ's mixing Hip-Hop beats with Vocals from Qawwals and popular Sufi singers like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Sabri Brothers
One of the first DJ's/Producers to mix both genres of music was Bally Sagoo who had a close connection with the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and released the album Majic Touch in 1993
Since 1993 many DJ's/Producers/Bands have experimented with the style such as:
References
Urban Qawwali Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA