From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

Illuminates the connection of music, poetry, mystical praxis and social history underlying the ceremony of the Mevlevi Dervishes Explores the musical tradition linked to the Mevlevi (‘Whirling’) Dervishes and the spiritual legacy of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, one of Islam’s greatest mystical poetsProvides an accessible introduction to the relationship between music and performative elements of Sufi practice codified in the Mevlevi ceremony of sema, illustrated with rare colour imagesPresents the b