Shefeek Rahman

Mappila (also called Mappila pattu) is a Muslim song tradition from Kerala, India, sung primarily in Malayalam enriched with Arabic (and occasionally Tamil/Urdu) vocabulary. The repertory spans devotional praise (mala), narrative and historical ballads (padappattu), romantic songs, and festive…

Mappila song (Mappila Pattu) is a Muslim folklore song tradition of the Mappila community in the Malabar region of Kerala, India. It is typically rendered in Arabi-Malayalam—a Malayalam vernacular written historically in an Arabic-derived script—and set to a melodic framework known as ishal.