- All About Turkey: Whirling Dervishes
- Tour guide Burak Sansal offers an overview of the members of the Mevlevi Order commonly known as Whirling Dervishes. Includes historical and cultural information including details about the ceremony of whirling dance known as Sema. - Dervish Spins
- Description of the moving meditation done by dervishes of the Mevlevi Order originated with Rumi. Includes descriptions of the history of the "turn" and the significance of spinning to Sufism. - Halveti-Jerrahi Order of Dervishes
- Cultural, educational, and social relief organisation made up of Muslims from diverse professional, ethnic, and national backgrounds. - Mevlevi Order of America
- Features events, classes, photo album, publications and journals, and more for the Sufi religious order following Hazratti Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi. - Rumi, Mevlana Jalaleddin (1207-1273)@
- Scenes From Turkey: Whirling Dervishes
- Featuring a photographic account of the annual Mevlana Festival held in Turkey which celebrates the anniversary of Rumi's wedding night with Allah. Includes a brief historical look at the festival and Whirling Dervishes. - School of Sacred Art
- Introduces whirling dervishism. Includes teaching schedule of Sama'a presentations, workshops, and camps in Europe. Also includes information about the Sama'a book, Light of the Light of the Light. - Sema: Human Being in the Universal Movement
- Offering an article detailing the origins and practices of the Sufi whirling custom known as Sema. Details the seven parts that comprise of this Turkish custom with illustrations and pictures. - Threshold Society
- Nonprofit educational foundation and spiritual school in the Mevlevi Sufi tradition, offering publications, programmes and events internationally. - Whirling Dervishes: A Search for Spirituality
- Features a collection of photos of the Whirling Dervishes documenting the gathering of the Mevlevi Order to celebrate the birth of mystic poet and Mevlevi founder, Jelaluddin Mevlana Rumi. - Wikipedia: Mevlevi
- Examining the Mevlevi Order, aka the Whirling Dervishes, founded by the followers of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi in 1273, known for their practice of whirling as a form of meditation.
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