Turkey's rival dervishes.(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 15, 2000 | Copyright information

ISTANBUL

IT IS another night of devotion at the ancient tekke, as buildings that house dervish communities are known, in Istanbul's Uskudar district. The faithful are beginning to file in. Trendy bankers, waddling old peasant women and earnest teenagers remove their shoes, then bow reverently before an old man sitting cross-legged on a green-carpeted floor.

His disciples consider him the spiritual successor of Mevlana Celalettin Rumi, the Afghan-born Sufi mys...

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