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 ...

KONYA, Turkey -- Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a weeklong series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar ...

Irina and her friends have no regrets about travelling thousands of kilometres (miles) from their native Latvia to this grey Anatolian town in mid-December. But then they have not come for the weather ...

Mohammad Nooraee knew exactly what he needed when Brandeis University students asked him to distill the essence of Sufism, an Islamic mystical tradition. Nooraee, director of the Nimatullahi Sufi ...

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JAFFA, Israel — In a family’s living room in this seaside town, seven people spin in circles to the beat of a drum and the strumming of a guitar. As the music gets faster, so does their turning, with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Sufi Islam in Dagestan is traditionally structured and is similar to Sufism in other countries. Muslim fundamentalism spread rapidly in ...

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 ...