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From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

by Edinburgh University Press
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$43.60
$43.60 - $43.60
$43.60

Walter Feldman
Paperback, 256 pages
9781474491860

 

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world’s best-known poets, yet the centuries-long musical tradition cultivated by the Mevleviye remains much less known. In this deeply researched book, renowned scholar Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin – the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the ‘Whirling’ Dervishes.

 

Contents
Part I: History and Culture of the Mevlevi Dervishes
Introduction: Continuities and Ruptures in the Mevlevi Tradition
1. Defining the Mystical Music of the Mevlevi Dervishes
2. The Mevlevi Phenomenon
3. Development and Cultural Affinities of the Mevlevi Ayin
4. The Ney in Mevlevi Music
5. The Mevlevi Neyzen as an Ideal Representative of Ottoman Culture
Part II: Music of the Mevlevis
6. The Position of Music within the Mevleviye
7. The Musical Structure of the Ayin
8. Music, Poetry and Composition in the Ayin
9. The Sema’i in the Third Selam and the Son Yürük Sema’i: Nucleus of the Antecedent Sema?