The Konya Turkish Sufi Music Ensemble performed the ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes, also known as Sema, at the India Habitat Centre. The ceremony, started by Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi in the 13th ...

Rachael Kohn: Think of Turkey, and two things immediately come to mind: Turkish Delight and the Whirling Dervishes. Hello and welcome to The Ark. Today we're talking about the delightful Whirling ...

Ziya Azazi, a Turkish dancer, will perform Dervish in Progress, a contemporary interpretation of the Sufi Whirling dance in Mumbai Sufi dervishes have a mystical, almost esoteric existence in popular ...

KONYA, TURKEY - JUNE 26: Whirling dervishes perform the Sema during an inter-university meeting at Mevlana Museum in the central Turkish city of Konya, Turkey on June 26, 2014. The dervishes are ...

Turkish whirling dervishes impressed Lebanese viewers. Performing in the country's northern city of Tripoli, Turkish whirling dervishes fascinated the audience. Started with chanting of Holy Qur'an, ...

A unique dance performance is coming to Thalia Mara Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 23. But don’t expect eye-catching costumes, a spectacular light show and booming music through a state-of-the-art sound ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Her red robes swirling, Tuesday Frindt whirls in place in the dervish prayer hall, her right hand open to God and the sky, her left hand to the earth. To have women spinning among ...

Editor's Note: Because the Dervishes do not speak English, Dervish Ahmet ?alisir's responses were translated from Turkish by Sena Arpinar, a member of the Istanbul Center in Atlanta. The Classic ...

Judging from the recent performances by the 'high priestess of oriental dance' Leila Haddad, the Mediterranean Arts Festival organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department is more about ...

When Pope Benedict XVI said in the aftermath of his Regensburg lecture that he wanted a “frank and sincere” dialogue with Islam, this may not have been exactly what he had in mind, but here it is ...

“How do you review a Dervish?” I tweeted semi-rhetorically last night as I headed off to Ted Mann Concert Hall to see the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi spin the light fantastic. I’m still not entirely ...