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After Rumi The Mevlevis and Their World by Jamal J. Ellas
After Rumi The Mevlevis and Their World by A preeminent scholar of Islamic history chronicles the rise of the Mevlevis, the influential Sufi community founded by Rumi.
The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. However, less attention has been paid to the Sufi community he founded: the Mevlevis, sometimes called the “Whirling Dervishes.”
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