Mercan Dede - The Sun Rises in the East / Güneş Doğudan doğar

Mercan Dede - 800 / The Sun Rises in the East / A Nap keleten kel. Whirling dervishes from Konya. animation: Maldoror Budapest, 2011 Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi (1207-1273) was the greatest Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language. Husam ad-Din was his successor and was in turn succeeded by Sultan Walad, who organized the loose fraternity of Rumi’s disciples into Mawlawiyah, known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes because of the mystical dance that constitutes their principal ritual. -----------