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established by
Pythagoras which derives its principles from Vedanta, which recognises all religions, yet it is not a religion, but a way of life. The main principles are: 1. Knowledge of the Soul's identity with the Divine aspect of creation. 2. No association with a particular religion, but accepting members who follow any belief system or none. 3. Men and women are treated equally in every respect, since the Soul of Man has no gender. 4. The use of melody which is Divinely inspired, sometimes combined with dance, as a part of the method to discover the True Self. 5. The harmonious blending of knowledge and devotion in the way the path is practiced. 6. Knowledge of the Soul's reincarnation on its continued journey. 7. Leading a regulated, systematic and disciplined life, including truthfulness and tolerance etc. Yet since the demise of the Mevlevi after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk banned their practice and confiscated their lands and buildings (tekkes), the true way has been mostly lost and forgotten. Also dervishes and Sheikhs are appointed by the Turkish government for the purpose of putting on a public show. This show is not Mevlevi. Their Sema was previously private and never put on as a show. Hence much of what follows in this description is based on the false ideas which have arisen since the time of Ataturk. With the belief that this Sufi way is a religion based on Islam. See the interview with a true Mevlevi at
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The Sema with the greatest significance to the
Mevlevi order is the annual celebration of Mevlana's "marriage to god" (death), also called Seb-i Arus, meaning Nuptial Night or Night of Union. It is observed for one week, with the final night occurring on the anniversary of his death. Pilgrims from
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believed that Rumi must have learnt whirling from Shams of Tabriz. Şefik Can claimed that whirling was practiced among Sufis at least as early as Abu Sa’id Abu’l-Khayr (d. 1049). Though they have cultivated it to the highest degree, Mevlevis are not the only Sufis who practice whirling, and Kabir
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Approximately 750 years old, the
Mevlevi Order was once a living tradition based on the teachings of Rumi, also known as Mevlevi or Mevlana, who is perhaps one of the most celebrated poets of Turkey. He is also venerated as a mystic within Islam. Rumi's friend and mentor, Shams of Tabriz, is also
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ceremony itself, and both he and
Husameddin Chelebi are honoured within the order as accomplished Sufi mystics in their own right. It was they who had Rumi's mausoleum built in Konya, which to this day is a place of pilgrimage for many Muslims (and non-Muslims). A number of Rumi's successors,
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Muslims of his day, Rumi said, "As long as I have life, I am the slave of the Quran. I am dust at the door of Muhammad the Chosen"; the Mevlevi path is thought to be based firmly on Islamic principles, but history shows that it is closer to the way
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writes, "Rumi tells us to take the love of God to the forefront, to abstain from being attached to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it, to find the essence of the faith, and to raise our faith from the level of imitation to the level of realization."
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turns. Both arms are extended and raised to the level of the head, with the right palm pointing upward (believed to be receiving Divine grace) and the left palm pointing downward (believed to channel that grace to the world). With each 360° turn, the
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behind them as they begin each circuit. The bow is said to represent the acknowledgement of the Divine breath which has been breathed into all of us and is a salutation from soul to soul. The dervishes then remove their black cloaks.
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music. After slapping the ground forcefully (representing the Divine act of creation when God said 'Be!' according to the Quran), they make a circuit in single file around the hall three times, bowing first to the
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about a
Mevlevi dergah in Sarajevo. Eventually, there were as many as 114 Sufi lodges, the order becoming well established within the Ottoman Empire when Devlet Hatun, a descendant of Sultan Veled, married
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Helminski suggests primordial origins: "The practice of whirling may have its origins in the timeless shadows of
Central Asian spirituality where shamans used it to induce altered states of consciousness."
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In the latter half of the twentieth century, the
Mevlevi Order began to make its presence felt in the West. This was due to the great popularity of English translations of Rumi's poetry (especially by
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Though the Sufi lodges were forced to close down, Mevlevi practice continues within Turkey but in a more restricted and private mode. Sufism is still officially illegal in Turkey, and
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is the transformation of rapture into love, the sacrifice of mind to love. It is annihilation of the self within the Loved One. It is complete submission. It is unity.... The fourth
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including both Sultan Veled and Husameddin Chelebi themselves, are also buried there. Their personal efforts to establish the order were continued by Sultan Veled's son
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To this day, responsibility for overseeing the Mevlevi Order is passed down through the generations of Rumi's male descendants. The head of the order is referred to as
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whirl using their right foot to propel themselves in a counter-clockwise circle, whilst their left foot remains rooted to the floor acting as an axis about which the
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Embracing Both Worlds: The Whirling Dervishes in America: The Mevelvi Ensemble with Kani Karaca, Recorded Live at Harvard University & the University of Arizona
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Embracing Both Worlds: The Whirling Dervishes in America: The Mevlevi Ensemble with Kani Karaca, Recorded Live at Harvard University & the University of Arizona
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Embracing Both Worlds: The Whirling Dervishes in America: The Mevlevi Ensemble with Kani Karaca, Recorded Live at Harvard University & the University of Arizona
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Atatürk in 1923, with members of the Mevlevi Order, before its institutional expression became illegal and their dervish lodge was changed into the Mevlana Museum.
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all over the world travel to Konya for the official celebration. The event is so popular that a ticketing system is in place for those who wish to attend.
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ceremony. Celebrated female musicians and composers include Dilhayat Khalifa (early 1700s) and Layla Saz (late 1800s – also buried at Galata Mevlevihanesi).
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According to a popular story, Rumi was first inspired to whirl when he heard the hammering of the goldsmiths in Konya's bazaar, however, Mevlevi historian
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Around about this time, Mevlevi dervishes also began to present the whirling ceremony to audiences in the West. In 1971, they performed in London with
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In addition to obligatory Islamic worship, some of the main spiritual practices within the Mevlevi Order are as follows (in order of importance):
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is a restored Ottoman hamam (Turkish bath) in Istanbul's Sirkeci district now used for performances of the Mevlevi (whirling dervish) sema.
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would occur including both men and women". In the same book, Camille Helminski presents a 1991 letter from Celaleddin Bakir Çelebi, the
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period, the Mevlevi order spread into the Balkans, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Palestine, especially in Jerusalem. The Bosnian writer
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Julia Scott Meisami, Forward to Franklin Lewis, Rumi Past and Present, East and West, Oneworld Publications, 2008 (revised edition)
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represents the rapture of the human being while witnessing the splendour of creation and the omnipotence of God. The third
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represents the human being's birth to Truth through knowledge, and through his awareness and submission to God. The second
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marks the beginning of the ceremony in which a solo singer offers a eulogy to the Prophet Muhammad. It is concluded with a
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heading the order, which granted permission for men and women to once more whirl together in mixed Mevlevi ceremonies.
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whole self, with all his mind and heart, he is a servant of God, of God's books and His prophets – of all Creation."
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Fundamentals of Rumi's Thought: A Mevlevi Sufi Perspective
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and if you wish a fingertip of sugar, it is gratis.
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ceremony and the participants are properly known as
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1860:"SYRIA AND THE 1948 WAR IN PALESTINE"
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1844:Helminski, Camille (2003).
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1970:Mevlevi Order of America
1938:. Threshold Productions.
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1670:. UNESCO. Archived from
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338:Principles and practices
21:Mevlevi (disambiguation)
2660:Muzaffar al-Din Gökböri
2245:Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi
2053:'Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani
1409:Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
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2501:'Abd al-Wahid ibn Zaid
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1920:Miller, Bruce (2017).
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2584:Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz
2081:Mu'in al-Din Chishti
1465:The Mevlevi Regiment
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1093:Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı
1051:Divani Shamsi Tabriz
118:ca. 2,000 as of 2015
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2519:Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad
2507:Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya
2177:('Umar al-Khalwati)
1711:Can, Şefik (2005).
1656:. İnkılap Kitabevi.
1607:. 22 November 2003.
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2631:Abu Talib al-Makki
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114:Membership
102:Headquarters
55:Abbreviation
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2388:Sufi poetry
2203:Bayram Wali
2173:Khalwatiyya
2145:Shadhiliyya
2038:Sufi orders
1538:Kâni Karaca
1479:World War I
1451:Ismail Dede
1368:The Çelebis
1359:Model of a
1316:During the
1222:– The Four
1072:Origins of
901:Persecution
628:Sufi orders
537:Sufi poetry
281:poet, Sufi
228:Inscription
2754:Categories
2197:Bayramiyya
2183:Rahmaniyya
2075:Chishtiyya
1906:2024-01-09
1869:2022-10-15
1435:Hüsn ü Aşk
896:Sufi music
665:Suhrawardi
655:Naqshbandi
251:Mevlevilik
243:Mawlawiyya
148:Main organ
81:Founded at
2678:Aurangzeb
2548:Al-Darani
2297:Muraqabah
2265:Practices
2239:Idrisiyya
2225:Tijaniyya
2165:Ibn Arabi
2159:Akbariyya
2131:Desuqiyya
2117:Badawiyya
2103:Rifa'iyya
2047:Qadiriyya
1363:studying.
1331:Bayezid I
1252:semazen's
1248:semazen's
1053:he says:
1004:Initiatic
998:Muraqabah
974:Şefik Can
800:Issawiyya
775:Qalandari
740:Salihiyya
635:Ba 'Alawi
595:Muraqabah
574:Practices
322:In 2005,
205:Reference
63:Formation
2436:Al-Burda
2322:Tawakkul
2317:Tabarruk
2312:Tawassul
2307:Tazkiyah
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1558:semazens
1418:Mathnavi
1403:Mathnavi
1335:Mehmed I
1301:Mathnavi
1200:semazens
1167:destegül
1159:Bektashi
1141:semazens
1121:Semazens
1117:semazens
1113:semahane
1083:Mevlevi
991:Mathnavi
760:Shattari
725:Malamati
675:Khalwati
660:Shadhili
640:Bektashi
610:Whirling
580:Anasheed
507:Qalandar
375:Tomb of
349:a series
347:Part of
317:semazens
291:whirling
108:, Turkey
2353:Karamat
2287:Ziyarat
1562:shaykha
1497:Atatürk
1477:During
1400:Rumi's
1378:Chelebi
1361:dervish
1318:Ottoman
1272:History
1246:is the
1213:semazen
1209:semazen
1204:peshrev
1163:tennûre
1130:semazen
1125:semazen
1049:in the
906:Ziyarat
891:History
881:Ma'rifa
843:Singers
805:Jerrahi
795:Inayati
755:Mevlevi
750:Kubrawi
745:Azeemia
730:Mouridi
715:Jelveti
710:Bayrami
700:Darqawi
680:Rahmani
650:Chishti
615:Ziyarat
600:Qawwali
552:Tazkiah
517:Silsila
492:Murshid
477:Ma'rifa
457:Karamat
412:Dervish
305:Dervish
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261:) is a
255:Persian
247:Turkish
195:Country
153:Diyanet
95:Dervish
71:Founder
58:Mevlevi
33:Turkish
2741:Portal
2619:Ruwaym
2292:Mawlid
2030:Sufism
1582:Çelebi
1566:sohbet
1390:Çelebi
1382:Çelebi
1374:Çelebi
1228:Selams
1224:Salams
1186:taksim
1180:– The
1087:, 1887
1047:ghazal
1008:sohbet
876:Haqiqa
871:Tariqa
866:Sharia
861:Tawhid
815:Zahedi
810:Madari
785:Galibi
780:Akbari
765:Uwaisi
705:Senusi
695:Tijani
690:Desuqi
685:Badawi
670:Rifa`i
645:Qadiri
562:Yaqeen
472:Manzil
467:Lataif
437:Haqiqa
360:Sufism
324:UNESCO
283:mystic
215:Region
199:Turkey
2378:Salik
2373:Murid
2363:Dhawq
2348:Kashf
2338:Ihsan
2331:Ideas
2302:Taqwa
2277:Haḍra
2272:Dhikr
1994:Vol.2
1991:Vol.1
1678:8 May
1588:Notes
1578:semas
1574:zhikr
1570:semas
1455:ayins
1428:, is
1349:Konya
1262:Quran
1244:selam
1240:selam
1236:selam
1232:selam
1155:sikke
1150:sikke
1145:hırka
1134:dhikr
1023:Dhikr
986:Quran
590:Haḍra
585:Dhikr
547:Salik
487:Murid
482:Maqam
462:Kashf
447:Irfan
442:Ihsan
422:Fakir
417:Dhawq
407:Baqaa
393:Abdal
387:Ideas
353:Islam
296:dhikr
267:Konya
106:Konya
97:order
75:Veled
2770:Rumi
2368:Ishq
2343:Wajd
2282:Zuhd
1680:2014
1508:sema
1459:sema
1406:and
1306:sema
1283:Pera
1182:naat
1139:The
1109:sama
1107:(or
1105:Sema
1074:Sema
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1015:Sema
605:Sama
557:Wali
512:Qutb
497:Nafs
452:Ishq
427:Fana
328:Sema
313:sema
309:Sufi
263:Sufi
237:The
141:Rumi
135:Wali
91:Type
2358:Nūr
1347:in
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886:Art
502:Nūr
432:Hal
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303:).
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241:or
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