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Vocals & arrangement by Farya Faraji. This is another Turkish song from the Alevi repertoire, a religious folk repertoire centred on Sufism, the mystical aspect of Islam that often uses music as a way of connecting with the divine. The instrumentation uses the bağlama, kemenche and kopuz. The latter is an especially important instrument in Turkish Sufism, and has always held a spiritual role in Alevi music much like the tanbour does for Kurdish Sufis in Iran; indeed the kopuz was lauded by Yunus Emre, a Sufi Turkish poet of the medieval era. Like much of Turkish Sufism, the lyrics of this song are centred on the remembrance of Ali as a main figure of respect, and he is given the title Shah; originally an Iranian title denoting monarch, but having gained a spiritual meaning within Turkish Sufism as the title of a spiritual figure. Lyrics in Turkish: Var mı canım Şah demenin edâsı Şah de canım Şah de gönlün şen olsun Yoktur
