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In the whirl: Women join twirling of dervishes in Turkey
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In the whirl: Women join twirling of dervishes in Turkey
By MOLLY MOORE
Washington Post
Sunday, January 14, 2001
Istanbul -- For more than seven centuries, little changed in the
mystic world of whirling dervishes, Muslim men performing the same
public rituals in the same swirling monochromatic white robes.
When Istanbul religious leader Hasan Cikar began mixing female
dervishes with the men on the public stage a few years ago, other
dervish leaders were outra...
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