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Whirling Dervishes - Wikipedia on Birmingham UK Com (932 words) |
 | The Mevlevi Order or the Mevleviye are a Sufi order founded by the followers of the Persian Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi in 1273 in Konya present day Turkey; also known as The Whirling Dervishes, sometimes called the Howling Dervishes or the Dancing Dervishes due to their famous practice of whirling as a form of meditation. |
| The practice of Sufi whirling, a whirling meditation, originated among the ancient Indian Sufis (and is still practiced by modern Turkish Dervishes). |
| The whirling is done on the spot in an anticlockwise direction, with the right arm held high, palm upwards, and the left arm held low, palm downwards. |
| Dance2 (889 words) |
| Sufis brought Islam to the common person in many of the areas that had been conquered or whose rulers had been converted. |
| Sufis preached that there could be a personal and direct relationship with God, not just through studying of written works and through scholarship. |
| The Sema Ceremony is whirling in a religious "trance". |
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