More than 700 years ago, the poet and Sufi mystic Rumi started spinning as a form of meditation. His modern descendants today are known as “whirling dervishes.” It’s an often misunderstood practice, torn between commercialism and tradition, even in the Turkish city of Konya, where it all started. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports.
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