Sema as Zikr The Language of the Whirling Dance
This paper explores the parallels found in the dance of the whirling dervishes and Rumi's poetry. The dance, or sema, is a remembrance of God , zikr, which Rumi beautifully describes in his poetry. It is an honoring and mirroring of the revolutions, cycles, circles, centers, and turnings of lif...
| Published in: | Budhi: a Journal of Ideas and Culture Vol. 22, no. 1 (2018), 85-100 |
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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