Turkish Mystic Sufi scholar and musician, Latif Bolat, will present music, poetry, Sufi mystic stories and images from the ancient land of Turkey, while Serap Yilmaz, above, a whirling dervish from ...

In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018, whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order perform during a Sheb-i Arus ceremony in Konya, central Turkey. Every December the Anatolian city hosts a series ...

The Konya Turkish Sufi Music Ensemble performed the ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes, also known as Sema, at the India Habitat Centre. The ceremony, started by Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi in the 13th ...

Imagine a room full of men, standing quietly, dressed in tall white conical headdresses, each with a long black cloak over white robes reaching to the ground. Their arms are crosswise over their ...

KONYA, Turkey (AP) — Every December, thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the central Turkish city of Konya for 10 days of ceremonies and events commemorating the death of the 13th-century Islamic ...