The Konya Turkish Sufi Music Ensemble performed the ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes, also known as Sema, at the India Habitat Centre. The ceremony, started by Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi in the 13th ...

From the Middle Ages to the first decades of the 20th century, the vast Islamic state known as the Ottoman Empire held sway. It took root in what is present-day Turkey and grew to include various ...

“NEITHER the sweets of Damascus, nor the face of the Arab.” This Turkish adage sums up the disdain modern Turks have long expressed for their Arab neighbours, a disdain that became fashionable with ...

A few years ago I was watching as an old blind singer carefully measured the distance from his mouth to the microphone with his hand. He paused for a moment, and then began to sing. And what a song it ...