[Original] Mosque des derviches dansants a Pera. [end] The tradition of dancing dervishes in Sufism probably reached its greatest heights in Turkey. The Persian poet and Sufi Jalal'uddin Rumi, originally born in Afghanistan, who did so much to establish the art of Sufi dervish dancing spent much of his life and died in Konya, in southern Turkey. After his death at the end of the 13th century, different orders of dervish dancers established themselves all over Turkey, and a number established mosques and other institutions in Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire. |
