The Celestial Dance of the Whirling Dervishes

First published at 21:56 UTC on January 31st, 2021.

The Mevlevis are also known as the "whirling dervishes" due to their famous practice of whirling as a form of dhikr (remembrance of God). Dervish is a common term for an initiate of the Sufi path; whirling is part of the formal sema ceremo…

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