Mevlana Tapestries

A view of the Mevlana Museum (Mevlâna Müzesi) in Konya, which is in south-central Turkey. This impressive building was built as the mausoleum for the Persian mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, completed in 1274. However further additions to the building were made until 1854. It is also famed as the former home to the Whirling Dervishes. It became a museum in 1927.

Let The Beauty Of What You Love Be What You Do is an original minimalist painting of a semazen matched with an inspirational quote from Rumi. A unique gift with a Cat Sunni Muslim poet and Turkish whirling dervish theme. Perfect for those who want to share a symbolic message of ego and truth, spiritualism, followers on Mevlana and Rumi or those who have a dervis theme in their lives and home. ABOUT THE ART ©‎ Painting 27 ‎July ‎2016, ‏‎14:46:15 Text Design ‎10 ‎January ‎2018, ‏‎18:10:39 Tracey Harrington Simpson

Known to the west as Whirling Dervishes, the members of the Mevlevi Order (named for their founder Mevlana) practice this Sufi ritual, which dates to the 13th century, which is full of symbolism. The full skirts represent the ego’s shroud. The camel-hair conical headdresses symbolizes the ego’s tomb, and the twirling itself acknowledges that everything — from the Earth to the atom — is constantly revolving. As the Dervishes extend their arms, their right palms face up and the left palms face downward. One hand is receiving (beneficence) from God, the other hand is delivering to the people. This form of dance which is known as “Sema” is not just a routine movement of the body and arms but a spiritual experience that combines the music,...

Why should I be unhappy. Every parcel of my being is in full bloom is an original minimalist painting of a semazen matched with an inspirational quote from Rumi. A unique gift with a Cat Sunni Muslim poet and Turkish whirling dervish theme. Perfect for those who want to share a symbolic message of ego and truth, spiritualism, followers on Mevlana and Rumi or those who have a dervis theme in their lives and home. ABOUT THE ART ©‎ Painting 27 ‎July ‎2016, ‏‎14:46:15 Text Design ‎‎11 ‎January ‎2018, ‏‎09:36:20 Tracey Harrington Simpson

Love Will Find Its Way Through All Languages Rumi Quote is an original minimalist painting of a semazen matched with an inspirational quote from Rumi. A unique gift with a Cat Sunni Muslim poet and Turkish whirling dervish theme. Perfect for those who want to share a symbolic message of ego and truth, spiritualism, followers on Mevlana and Rumi or those who have a dervis theme in their lives and home. ABOUT THE ART ©‎ Painting 27 ‎July ‎2016, ‏‎14:46:15 Text Design ‎‎11 ‎January ‎2018, ‏‎09:28:00 Tracey Harrington Simpson

Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: الله, romanized: Allāh, IPA: [ʔaɫ.ɫaːh] ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. Sufi whirling (or Sufi turning) (Turkish: Semazen borrowed from Persian Sama-zan, Sama, meaning listening, from Arabic, and zan, meaning doer, from Persian) is a form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order and other orders such as the Rifa'i-Marufi. It is a customary meditation practice performed within the sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes (also called semazens, from Persian سماعزن) aim to reach the source of all perfection, ...

Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: الله, romanized: Allāh, IPA: [ʔaɫ.ɫaːh] ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. Sufi whirling (or Sufi turning) (Turkish: Semazen borrowed from Persian Sama-zan, Sama, meaning listening, from Arabic, and zan, meaning doer, from Persian) is a form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order and other orders such as the Rifa'i-Marufi. It is a customary meditation practice performed within the sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes (also called semazens, from Persian سماعزن) aim to reach the source of all perfection, ...

Waw The letter waw is copula and a mark for the voice in the Arabic language, symbolizing the connection of God and man. The composition is not incidentally made in a circular form, it is there to symbolize the ritual of dhikr, to remind one of the infinite repetition and the circular movement and rhythm of composition are an association to the ritual’s choreography, right to left, like a cosmic movement. This visual dhikr, which, upon seeing calligraphy, prevents one from oblivion and brings him back to the state of consciousness, is a symbolism of the movement of the cosmos and the planets, because, according to Sufi teaching, everything is in movement. In art, Muslims “developed a great love for the waw and used it from about 1700...

“Come out here where the roses have opened. Let soul and world meet.” – Rumi. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, “our master”), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, “my master”), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi’s influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions and many have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s languages and trans...

"What You Seek is Seeking You" - Rumi