The Mawlaw is a Sufi order founded in Konya (in present-day Turkey) and its ceremony was proclaimed by UNESCO as amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.(Getty Images) ...

In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018, whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order perform during a Sheb-i Arus ceremony in Konya, central Turkey. Every December the Anatolian city hosts a series ...

KONYA, Turkey -- Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a weeklong series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar ...

Imagine a room full of men, standing quietly, dressed in tall white conical headdresses, each with a long black cloak over white robes reaching to the ground. Their arms are crosswise over their ...

Irina and her friends have no regrets about travelling thousands of kilometres (miles) from their native Latvia to this grey Anatolian town in mid-December. But then they have not come for the weather ...

Qawwali was introduced to the world in the thirteenth century, but qawwali gained worldwide prominence in the twentieth century because famous Qawwals such as Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sabri ...

The dissertation of the scholar of Islamic studies Cüneyd Yildirim, recently published by Ergon Verlag, deals with the Ottoman Sufi community of the Malāmatiyya, which was formed in the 19th century.

JUST FOUR MONTHS AGO, thousands of mourners thronged the Grand Mosque in Mecca for the funeral of a famous Sufi teacher. This was an extraordinary event, given the discrimination against all ...

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