While Qawwali began in the 11th century as spiritual concerts by a follower of the Christi school of Sufism Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, who often used music often when praying; Amir Khusru was said to have been the godfather of Qawwali. Qawwali was based on Amir Khusru's music which mixed element of Turkey, Persia and India in the creation of a new music. During certain periods of Islamic history not everyone was fond of this new type of music called Qawwali, it suffered a sharp decline along side Sufism when fundamentalist attacked the liberalism of Sufis and declared their experimental music Depraved. One opponent of Qawwali was Aurangzeb a Mughal ruler, when musicians held funerals with their instruments wrapped around up in corpses Aureangzeb used this to signify the death of Qawwali under his rule. In modern time Qawwali is most popular in North India and points of Pakistan and Bangladesh but in the past it rarely made it past South Asia, it was only during the 20th century that it made it past South Asia.