Translated from Persian dervish - a "beggar", "poor".Dervish followers called Dzhallaladina Turkish philosopher Rumi, who founded the Sufi order.During the Ottoman Sufi sect lived in the mansions resembling Christian monasteries.Order headed by Sheikh, who was a religious teacher.Those who come into dervish orders, called murids and become full dervishes.
members of the Order must have been in poverty and piety, refraining from wealth and living on alms.Two important Sufi order and now are popular: the Mevlevi and Bektashi.
Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes
Mevlevi Order is a group, which includes followers of the great poet Mevlana.Each year, members of the Mevlevi winter commemorating the founder of the Order of the festival.On the religious ceremony the dervishes come in flowing white dresses and hats of conical shape.They are spinning the sounds of mystical music and symbolize death and the final stage of the connection and the Mevlana Allah.
Bektashi dervishes
Bektashi Dervish - a follower of the mystic Haci Bektas Veli.The movement became extremely popular after Ali was declared heir to Muhammad.For the Bektashi Sufi order music plays a very important role.Members of the Order of the Bektashi not demonstrate their religiosity, they do not read prayers aloud, do not go to the mosque and not fast.Except for a three-day fasting in remembrance of the sufferings of Hussein.
ceremonial dance of the dervishes
dancing dervish - is the embodiment of a special ritual worship of Allah.The rhythm of the dance under the magical sounds of the reed flute, flowing robes of dervishes.This is a special understanding of the world of man on earth and in the universe.At the end of the dance dervishes exempt from clothes to symbolize freedom from earthly cares and hardships, and also shows that before God all people are equal.
Although the dervish - a member of the ancient order, which was founded nearly eight years ago, his ritual dance to this day almost unchanged.Dervishes slowly go out and spread a white sheepskin rugs and scarlet.Then they removed capes and kneel, crossing his arms over his chest.Approach to his religious mentor and put her head on his shoulder, kissing his hand, bow to each other and begin rotating, to go around.While dancing dervishes fall into a trance, to get a blessing from God.
Dervish Monastery in Northern Cyprus in Lefkosa city there is a small building built in the eastern style - a monastery of the Order of the dancing dervishes.Since 1963, in the premises of the monastery is located the Ethnographic Museum.In the courtyard you can see a large number of tombstones that are owned by people of different incomes.Determine to what social class belonged owner, you can shape caps, above the tombstone.
Also in this museum presents a picture, which depicts the dancing dervishes.This leads them into ecstasy for spiritual meditation.Ritual dances of the dervishes were held in the central hall of the monastery.In the hall of the museum are wax figures of dancing dervishes and constantly sounds mystical music.Therefore, visitors can easily imagine looked like a ritual dance of the Order.
