Sufi dancer in Cairo
romsrini kindly allowed me to use his pictures for this blog - and he has taken actually great photos during his stay in Cairo in December last year! This is the picture of a Sufi dancer. (I knew it already, saw it somewhere on yahoo blogs these days.)
Sufi dancers - I have heard about them under the name "Dervishes" - are muslim mystics. Love, harmony and beauty are their highest goals. But Wikipedia is, as usually, an excellent source, so let me quote them:
"As Sufi practitioners, dervishes were known as a source of wisdom, medicine, poetry, enlightment, and witticisms. For example, Mollah Nasr-ad-Din (Mulla Nasrudin, Hoja Nasrudin) had become a legend in the Near East and the Indian subcontinent (and not only Muslims)."
Ah yes, Hodsha Nasreddin ... Reminds me of my childhood, when I read fairy tales about him or watched the movies (made by USSR film studios, mainly Uzbek and Armenian studios, I think ...)
Sufi dancers - I have heard about them under the name "Dervishes" - are muslim mystics. Love, harmony and beauty are their highest goals. But Wikipedia is, as usually, an excellent source, so let me quote them:
"As Sufi practitioners, dervishes were known as a source of wisdom, medicine, poetry, enlightment, and witticisms. For example, Mollah Nasr-ad-Din (Mulla Nasrudin, Hoja Nasrudin) had become a legend in the Near East and the Indian subcontinent (and not only Muslims)."
Ah yes, Hodsha Nasreddin ... Reminds me of my childhood, when I read fairy tales about him or watched the movies (made by USSR film studios, mainly Uzbek and Armenian studios, I think ...)
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