Every December, crowds flock to Konya to commemorate Rumi and watch the Whirling Dervishes perform their iconic dance. The dance is performed in a symbolic costume of white robes and a conical hat ...

On to Konya, where a striking display by whirling dervishes was the most interesting part of the journey, with information ...

Rumi was a Sufi poet, theologian and teacher who was born in Persia (now part of Afghanistan) and died in Konya (present ... order of the Mevlevi, the "whirling" dervishes, and created the Sema ...