Mevlevi Order
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mevlevi-order-186-12862854
title:
Mevlevi Order
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The Mevlevi Order or Mawlawiyya is a Sufi order that originated in Konya, Turkey and which was founded by the followers of Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, Sufi mystic, and theologian. The Mevlevis are also known as the "whirling dervishes" due to their famous practice of whirling while performing dhikr. Dervish is a common term for an initiate of the Sufi path; whirling is part of the formal sema ceremony and the participants are properly known as semazens. In 2005,
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wiki
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Sufi order in Islam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevlevi_Order
date created:
2003-04-22T07:57:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T01:57:28Z
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