Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018, whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order perform during a Sheb-i Arus ceremony in ...

KONYA, Turkey -- Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a weeklong series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar ...

KARACHI: The Sindh government has approached Turkey for financial assistance in launching the Sufi University at Bhit Shah, the last abode of mystic poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. The provincial ...

Imagine a room full of men, standing quietly, dressed in tall white conical headdresses, each with white robes reaching to the ground. Their arms are crosswise over their chests, the symbol of One God ...

Commemorations marking the death of a 13th-century Sufi mystic began Sunday in the central Anatolian city of Konya, where he is buried. The ceremony, also known as "Seb-i Arus" or reunion with the ...

Rumi’s philosophy of tolerance and fraternity is what brought the people of Turkey together on its days of independence, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi was a ...

Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world’s most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to do so has exasperated Afghanistan, the country of his birth eight centuries ago.

KONYA: Arms crossed over their hearts, hands resting on their shoulders, the dervishes start their dance. They turn on themselves, slowly sliding their hands along their bodies before raising them, ...

Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world's most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to do so has exasperated Afghanistan, country of his birth eight centuries ago. Tehran ...

KABUL: Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world’s most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to do so has exasperated Afghanistan, the country of his birth eight centuries ...

KONYA, Turkey (AP) — Every December, thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the central Turkish city of Konya for 10 days of ceremonies and events commemorating the death of the 13th-century Islamic ...