The Konya Turkish Sufi Music Ensemble performed the ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes, also known as Sema, at the India Habitat Centre. The ceremony, started by Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi in the 13th ...

Turkish Mystic Sufi scholar and musician, Latif Bolat, will present music, poetry, Sufi mystic stories and images from the ancient land of Turkey, while Serap Yilmaz, above, a whirling dervish from ...

Reed flutist Tolga Unaldi plays live for us, previewing the concert of Modern Turkish Sufi Music that he presents tomorrow evening at the Rothko Chapel. Then we meet Danish Maestro Thomas Dausgaard, ...

Their songs are praises to the divine, and so are their dances. They represent a mystical side of Islam that uses music and movement to achieve a state of ecstasy with God and humanity. When the ...

Judging from the recent performances by the 'high priestess of oriental dance' Leila Haddad, the Mediterranean Arts Festival organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department is more about ...

THOSE who have devoured his books on India will have noted William Dalrymple's fascination with Sufis and their music. He also presented the superb documentary Sufi Soul in 2008, a visual voyage ...