Turkey: Mevlevi 'Whirling Dervishes', c1900

The Mawlawi Order, or the Mevlevilik or Mevleviye are a Sufi order founded in Konya (in present-day Turkey) by the followers of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, and theologian. They are also known as the Whirling Dervishes due to their famous practice of whirling as a form of dhikr (remembrance of God). Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich, 1905.

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