The Mawlawyah (Sufi Order) in Turkey are also known as what?
Mevlevi Order Mevlevi Order The Mawlaw'īyya / Mevlevi Order ( ) is a Sufi order in Konya (modern day Turkey) (capital of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate) founded by the followers of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic theologian and Sufi mystic. The Mevlevi are also known as the Whirling Dervishes due to their famous practice of whirling as a form of dhikr (remembrance of God). Dervish is a common term for an initiate of the Sufi path; the whirling is part of the formal Sama ceremony and the participants are properly known as "semazen"-s. In 2008, UNESCO confirmed "The
Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order selection of books on Sufism and religious mysticism from Pir Press, the publishing house also run by the order. Masjid al-Farah is located at 245 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013 in the Tribeca district. Feisal Abdul Rauf served as Imam of Masjid al-Farah from 1983 to 2009. He is one of the people behind the Cordoba Initiative. The Nur Ashki Jerrahi Order has Dervish communities in the following locations: Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order The Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order is a modern dervish order (tariqah) of Sufism. It is a branch of the Halveti-Jerrahi Tariqah of Istanbul, Turkey,