Mevlevi

The Mevlevi or Mevleviyya order (whirling dervishes) is a school (tarika) of Sufism was founded by Hazrat Sheikh Mevlana Jalal-ud-din Rumi. He was also sometimes known as Jalal-ud-din Balkhi as he came from Balkh, Afghanistan, and settled in Konya, (modern Turkey). This order is also called the 'Order of the Whirling Dervishes' because of the famous sema whirling/dancing ritual that they practice.

Mevlevi Media

• Sufi Calligraphy

• Hodjapasha Culture Center is a restored Ottoman hamam (Turkish bath) in Istanbul's Sirkeci district now used for performances of the Mevlevi (whirling dervish) sema.

• Mevlevi whirling dervishes, 1887

• Mevlevi dervishes whirling in Pera by Jean-Baptiste van Mour

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  Mevlana Museum in Konya.

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  Model of a dervish studying.

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  Atatürk in 1923, with members of the Mevlevi Order, before its institutional expression became illegal and their dervish lodge was changed into the Mevlana Museum.

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  Suleyman Loras with David Bellak in Konya