The Al-Kharrat family in Syria has kept the tradition of Sema, or the dance of the whirling dervishes, alive for decades.

There are other Sufi dance groups scattered across the country ... provided training to her students online. Now, she’s back whirling in person. At the Italian restaurant, Abdul Ahad, a ...

There are other Sufi dance groups scattered across the country ... provided training to her students online. Now, she’s back whirling in person. At the Italian restaurant, Abdul Ahad, a ...

Fahima Mirzaie performs a Sema dance (Sufi Whirling) in Kabul Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Taking on an unorthodox task in her society, the 24-year-old teaches men and women Sufi whirling.

Sufi whirling is a form of religious dance in which the performer wears traditional dress and spins in circles. Sufis are practitioners of Sufism, known as tasawwuf in Arabic, which is an approach ...

(CNN)-- The dance of the Whirling Dervishes is not only a sight ... The Order of Mevlevi, as the Whirling Dervishes are officially known, is a Sufi movement founded in the 13th century after ...

Ziya Azazi, a Turkish dancer, will perform Dervish in Progress, a contemporary interpretation of the Sufi Whirling dance in Mumbai Sufi dervishes have a mystical, almost esoteric existence in ...

When we use the words ‘sufi’or ‘sufism’, the images of dervishes performing their whirling dance come to mind. Here too, various orders follow different types of techniques, but ...

A mesmerising video of a Sufi dancer is going viral on social media, capturing the traditional Sufi dance with a fiery twist. The clip shows a dancer performing the spiritual whirling ritual known as ...