Whirling Dervishes in Damascus…

Posted on March 7, 2014 by admin

Today, while teaching about al-Ghazali and Sufism in the Levant, I showed this clip (from a few years ago) of Sufis in Syria whirling in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus–right next to the shrine of John the Baptist. The whirling begins around the 27:00 mark…

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