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  • Mevlana founded the order of the Whirling Dervishes, formally called the Mevlevi order after him.

    Log of the Eclipse (7) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Mevlana founded the order of the Whirling Dervishes, formally called the Mevlevi order after him.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Being a Mevlevi was established as a seet after the death of Mevlana by his son Sultan Veled who was formed Mevlevi as a religious order according to his fathers thoughts, After that, the people in this way has called as "Mevlevi".

    WeLove-music 2009

  • I have suppressed the rest of this memory — and replaced it with memories of the sublime: watching the Sufi dancers known as Mevlevi, or whirling dervishes.

    The Ottoman Mystique 2008

  • During the rest of our time in the city we learned more about the symbols expressed in this dance — the eerie hat evoking the tombstone that awaits us all — and sought out other Mevlevi, in less obvious settings.

    The Ottoman Mystique 2008

  • I have suppressed the rest of this memory — and replaced it with memories of the sublime: watching the Sufi dancers known as Mevlevi, or whirling dervishes.

    The Ottoman Mystique 2008

  • During the rest of our time in the city we learned more about the symbols expressed in this dance — the eerie hat evoking the tombstone that awaits us all — and sought out other Mevlevi, in less obvious settings.

    The Ottoman Mystique 2008

  • For conduct, Rumi takes "laziness," for which here I see the introspective process of truth-seeking that is Rumi's hallmark, and that of the Mevlevi Brotherhood which he helped define.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Many of them were secular and had never attended a mosque in their lives before coming across the Mevlevi Order.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

  • Which is why the portrait of Ataturk hanging alongside icons of revered early Muslim figures Ali and Hussein in every Mevlevi lodge in Istanbul is so astonishing.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

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