Sema as Zikr: The Language of the Whirling Dance

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Valverde, Vida Mia S.
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• الموضوعات: Rumi; semazen; silence; zikr; god
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol22/iss1/5; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1420/viewcontent/Budhi_2022.1_205_20Article_20__20Valverde.pdf
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

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 life. Thi...