From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes : : Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire /

From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes : : Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire / / Walter Feldman.

Illuminates the connection of music, poetry, mystical praxis and social history underlying the ceremony of the Mevlevi DervishesExplores the musical tradition linked to the Mevlevi (‘Whirling’) Dervishes and the spiritual legacy of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, one of Islam’s greatest mystical poetsProvi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Feldman, Walter ,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Music and Performance in Muslim Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Musical Examples and Figures
  • Images
  • A Note on Orthography and Transliteration
  • Turkish Musical Symbols and the Intonation of Ottoman Music
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. History and Culture of the Mevlevi Dervishes
  • Introduction: Continuities and Ruptures in the Mevlevi Tradition
  • 1. Defining the Mystical Music of the Mevlevi Dervishes
  • 2. The Mevlevi Phenomenon
  • 3. Development and Cultural Affinities of the Mevlevi Ayin
  • 4. The Ney in Mevlevi Music
  • 5. The Mevlevi Neyzen as an Ideal Representative of Ottoman Culture
  • Part II. Music of the Mevlevis
  • 6. The Position of Music within the Mevleviye
  • 7. The Musical Structure of the Ayin
  • 8. Music, Poetry, and Composition in the Ayin
  • 9. The Sema’i in the Third Selam and the Son Yürük Sema’i: Nucleus of the Antecedent Samā’?
  • Postlude: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire
  • Glossary
  • References Cited
  • Index

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