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Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes (Forum for Theology in the World)

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio

This brings together, in English, for the first time a number of articles in one volume that have been published in various books and journals and are reprinted with permission. Through this work, Rumi and his poetry as well as the whirling dervishes, will hopefully become more widely known in Weste...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

It was the first Italian book on whirling dervishes and was well-received, even by the church; Cardinal Ravasi wrote a positive book review in a major Italian newspaper.

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And I brought also a book, the first Italian book on World Endervishes. The World Endervishes? Yeah. Yeah. It was the first one, even if a lot of Italian come to Turkey and see the World Endervishes d...

— Episode: Fr. Alberto Ambrosio and Metropolitan El...

Episode: Fr. Alberto Ambrosio and Metropolitan Elpidophoros...

It was the first Italian book on whirling dervishes and was well-received, even by the church; Cardinal Ravasi wrote a positive book review in a major Italian newspaper.

"

And I brought also a book, the first Italian book on World Endervishes. The World Endervishes? Yeah. Yeah. It was the first one, even if a lot of Italian come to Turkey and see the World Endervishes dance and they don't know, they go back and they don't still know anything about Sema.

And he loves also Rumi's poetry that is very interesting.

Episode: Fr. Alberto Ambrosio and Metropolitan Elpidophoros...

It was the first Italian book on whirling dervishes, and it was well-received, even by the church. Cardinal Ravasi, the Minister of Culture, gave it a positive review in a major Italian newspaper.

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And I brought also a book, the first Italian book on World Endervishes. The World Endervishes? Yeah. Yeah. It was the first one, even if a lot of Italian come to Turkey and see the World Endervishes dance and they don't know, they go back and they don't still know anything about Sema. And apparently this book is very well received.

And he loves also Rumi's poetry that is very interesting.

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