Rumi and the whirling dervishes
Subtitle: being an account of the Sufi order known as the Mevlevis and its founder the poet and mystic Mevlana Jalaluʾddin Rumi
By: by Shems Friedlander ; music section by Nezih Uzel ; foreword by Annemarie Schimmel ; preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Contributors: Uzel, Nezih, bendir player.; Friedlander, Shems.
Edition: 1st Parabola ed.
Publisher: Parabola Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, -- Maulana, -- 1207-1273.; Mevleviyeh.; Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Sufism -- History.
Notes: Originally published under title: The whirling dervishes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167).
Table of contents: label: Foreword by Annemarie Schimmel
title: 18; label: Preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
title: 20; label: Introduction: Dust on the Path of Muhammad
title: 22; label: The Sufi
title: 25; label: Neutralizing the Earth's Glue
title: 31; label: Mevlana Jalalu'ddin Rumi
title: 45; label: Sema: The Whirling Dervish Ceremony
title: 83; label: The Tekke: The Divine Factory of the Whirling Dervishes
title: 113; label: Music by Nezih Uzel
title: 129; label: The Honey of His Counsel
title: 153; label: The Phoenix
title: 157; label: Glossary
title: 159; label: Bibliography
title: 165