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 ...

KOZHIKODE: The Sufi Foundation of India is arranging a retreat in Kozhikode on June 21 for those who want to immerse ...

who is a trained dancer and began practicing Sufi whirling about 15 years ago. She emphasizes that whirling “is a prayer, a meditation. It’s not a dance for the aesthetic of it.” After about ...

who is a trained dancer and began practicing Sufi whirling about 15 years ago. She emphasizes that whirling “is a prayer, a meditation. It’s not a dance for the aesthetic of it.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...