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- Code Number:
- RCTV07P04_11
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Mevlevi Dervish before a performance at the SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL, Fez, Morocco
- Mevlevi Dervishes commonly known as the Whirling Dervishes, do public performances of their religious ceremony, called SEMA. After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Kemal Ataturk forced the dervishes into clandestinity and it is only by being considered public patrimony by the government that they were allowed to continue their Sufi practices.
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Morocco, Africa, Scenics, Structure, African, Faith, Religion, Religious, Belief System, devotional, devotion, Holy, Divinity, Sacred Place, worship, Holiness, Spiritual
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- Code Number:
- RCTV07P04_11
- Title:
-
Mevlevi Dervish before a performance at the SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL, Fez, Morocco
- Mevlevi Dervishes commonly known as the Whirling Dervishes, do public performances of their religious ceremony, called SEMA. After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Kemal Ataturk forced the dervishes into clandestinity and it is only by being considered public patrimony by the government that they were allowed to continue their Sufi practices.
- Keywords:
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Morocco, Africa, Scenics, Structure, African, Faith, Religion, Religious, Belief System, devotional, devotion, Holy, Divinity, Sacred Place, worship, Holiness, Spiritual
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