Making Art: Give it a whirl. Sufism the Rumi way

This music documentary is about the adoration rite performed by the Galata Mehlevi Lodge (Brotherhood) of Istanbul, involving a group of whirling dervishes and a musical performance. The rite was popularised by Jalaluddin Rumi (Jalaluddin the Roman) some 700 years ago. Like some artistic manifestations of sufism, this movement divide opinions: it is credited for the promoting poetry, literature and music, but also condemned by fundamentalists for allegedly encouraging Muslims to swap rationale with intuition. Ironically, it was the secular camp which succeeded in having the sufi orders banned in the 1920s. This rite was not performed in public for the next three decades.

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Travel & Events

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• dervish
• dervishes
• istanbul
• mehlevi
• sufi
• sufism
• sojournposse
• travel
• turkey
• galata
• rumi
• whirling