Whirling Dervish | Mehfil e Sama in Konya, Turkey | Followers of Rumi
Channel: Nomad Zia
Date: 2020-12-05

This video was recorded in Konya during Sama at Rumi’s tomb...
 
Dervish or Darvesh or Darwīsh (from Persian: درویش‎, Darvīsh) in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (tariqah), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. Their focus is on the universal values of love and service, deserting the illusions of ego to reach God. In most Sufi orders, a dervish is known to practice zikar through physical exertions or religious practices to attain the ecstatic trance to reach God. Their most common practice is Sama, which is associated with the 13th-century mystic Rumi.
The whirling dance or Sufi whirling that is proverbially associated with dervishes is best known in the West by the practices (performances) of the Mevlevi order in Turkey and is part of a formal ceremony known as the Sama. It is, however, also practised by other orders. The Sama is only one of the many Sufi ceremonies performed to try to reach religious ecstasy (majdhb, fana). The name Mevlevi comes from the Persian poet Rumi, who was a dervish himself.

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