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History Unplugged Podcast

Teaser: Ottoman Lives Part 6—The Holy Man

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In the 19th century, when European travelers went to the Ottoman Empire, something that they almost always mentioned weren't the whirling durvishes.

1:09.0

The durvishes, whose name means those who have chosen the road of suffering,

1:14.0

had a religious ceremony where they would wear long flowing robes and cone-shaped hats and spin around together in formation.

1:20.0

So a group of them make this whirling motion in order to perform mystical aspects of their faith.

1:25.0

So one early 19th century writer described it as,

1:29.0

They're curious, beautiful and mysterious dance,

1:32.0

induced a dream of order and beauty produced out of chaos,

1:35.0

or the harmonic revolutions of the planetary systems.

1:39.0

The reason they're performing this ritual is in celebration of the Sufi poet, Jalatan Rumi,

1:45.0

who lived in the Turkish city of Konya in the 13th century.

1:49.0

He was from Afghanistan, but he was fleeing the Mongol invasions.

1:54.0

The legend goes that he said to have invented whirling when he first spun himself into an ecstatic trance in the 13th century.

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