Live Whirling Dervish Show

The Mevlevi Order (The Mevlevi Tariqa), founded by the son Walad and the disciples of Celaleddin Rumi, in the onetime Seldjukid capital of Konya after his death in 1274, has institutionalized an ecstatic dance as part of the education of the disciples to forget the present and become united with the lover in infinity in a trance that is engendered by a constant spiraling movement to chants and to the music of the ney. This dance, which is called the Samâ, also means ‘hearing.’ In the words of one of the best- known scholars of mystical Islam, Annemarie Schimmel, “The samâ is no doubt, the most widely known expression of mystical life in Islam. After the show drop-off at the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.