the Sufi mystic who is one of the world's most beloved poets. It was Rumi's followers who founded the brotherhood of whirling dervishes, so-called for the trance-like dance which is a central part ...

This journey that beautifully seeks its destination within the self is represented by the Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes, a Sufi sect that originated in Konya, Turkey. The whirling of the Mevlevi ...

Konya is also known as the home of the Mevlevi order, the Sufi sect that follows the teachings of Rumi, often called whirling ...

Clashes took place outside a Tehran police station between police and members of the dervish minority Five Iranian security personnel have been killed in clashes with members of a Sufi Muslim ...

Community members in Wisconsin continued to wrestle with grief in the aftermath of a school shooting that killed a teacher ...

Historian William Dalrymple journeys to Morocco, Turkey, Syria and Pakistan to explore whirling dervishes, Qawwali singing and other forms of music sacred in Sufism, the branch of Islam that ...