It is a ritual developed in Turkey by the poet Jalal Al-Din Al-Rumi in the 13th century in an attempt to develop his Sufi religious school of thought. With the Ottoman conquests, the dance settled and ...

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Alexandria’s Sufis observed Ramadan in the City of Saints with rituals that are as important today as they have been for ...

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