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From Rumi To the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism In the Ottoman Empire (Music and Performance In Muslim Contexts)
[Paperback - 2023]
walter feldman
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Category: Religion
Sub-category: Sufism/mysticism
Additional Category: Islamic History
Publisher: Edinburgh University | ISBN: 9781474491860 | Pages: 256
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Illuminates the connection of music, poetry, mystical praxis and social history underlying the ceremony of the Mevlevi Dervishes Explores the musical tradition linked to the Mevlevi ( Whirling ) Dervishes and the spiritual legacy of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, one of Islam s greatest mystical poets Provides an accessible introduction to the relationship between music and performative elements of Sufi practice codified in the Mevlevi ceremony of sema, illustrated with rare colour images Presents the biographies of the principal Mevlevi musicians, showing both their creation of the music of the ayin and their key role in the development of Ottoman court music Includes numerous original translations of Turkish verse by major Mevlevi poets Presents music examples with explanation, both in the book and freely available on the Aga Khan Music Programme website Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world s best-known poets, yet the centuries-long musical tradition cultivated by the Mevleviye remains much less known. In this deeply researched book, renowned scholar Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes. "

About the Author

Walter Feldman is a leading scholar of both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. His major publications include Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (Oxford, 2016) and Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (Verlag f r Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1996). As a lifelong musician, Feldman performs on the Ottoman tanbur and the cimbal the traditional Klezmer dulcimer. He has held teaching positions at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University Abu Dhabi and is a board member of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae Project of the Wilhelm Westphalian University in M nster, and of the Istanbul Research Institute.

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