Mevlevi

Mevlana founded the order of the Whirling Dervishes, formally called the Mevlevi order after him.

Log of the Eclipse (7) Walter Jon Williams 2006

Mevlana founded the order of the Whirling Dervishes, formally called the Mevlevi order after him.

Archive 2006-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

Being a Mevlevi was established as a seet after the death of Mevlana by his son Sultan Veled who was formed Mevlevi as a religious order according to his fathers thoughts, After that, the people in this way has called as "Mevlevi".

WeLove-music 2009

I have suppressed the rest of this memory — and replaced it with memories of the sublime: watching the Sufi dancers known as Mevlevi, or whirling dervishes.

The Ottoman Mystique 2008

During the rest of our time in the city we learned more about the symbols expressed in this dance — the eerie hat evoking the tombstone that awaits us all — and sought out other Mevlevi, in less obvious settings.

The Ottoman Mystique 2008

I have suppressed the rest of this memory — and replaced it with memories of the sublime: watching the Sufi dancers known as Mevlevi, or whirling dervishes.

The Ottoman Mystique 2008

During the rest of our time in the city we learned more about the symbols expressed in this dance — the eerie hat evoking the tombstone that awaits us all — and sought out other Mevlevi, in less obvious settings.

The Ottoman Mystique 2008

For conduct, Rumi takes "laziness," for which here I see the introspective process of truth-seeking that is Rumi's hallmark, and that of the Mevlevi Brotherhood which he helped define.

Balkinization 2006

Many of them were secular and had never attended a mosque in their lives before coming across the Mevlevi Order.

Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

Which is why the portrait of Ataturk hanging alongside icons of revered early Muslim figures Ali and Hussein in every Mevlevi lodge in Istanbul is so astonishing.

Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008