The Whirling Dervishes

The Whirling Dervishes trace their origin to the 13th century Ottoman Empire. The Dervishes, also known as the Mevlevi Order, are Sufis, a spiritual offshoot of Islam. In 1972, Jelaluddin Loras, Sheikh of the Mevlevi Order of America, brought the religion from Turkey to the United States. On December 17, Whirling Dervishes across the world celebrate the birth of Jelaluddin Mevlana Rumi, a mystic poet, who founded the Mevlevi Order. I am the first photographer allowed to document this group.

yay lots of fun with making skills and the dance emote for it >_<

The whirling Dervish dance!..

cool can't wait to see it.

If they are anything like the Whirling Dervishes in Mtg this is going to be fun

Too bad we don't get the cool hats...

they get jesus creepers

Told y'all they were Sufi. lol

i'd rather do the mc hammer dance :P but wait.. don't warriors have that, i saw a wow vs gw dance off and the one goblin had mc hammer, idk 12 till 2 am

Either it would awesome to have the robed guy doing the mc hammer dance :P

I'd image the dervishes to whirl... they have skirts that fan out. creepy really... men in skirts... I'm soooo glad Scotsmen don't whirl :P

Imagine the game being released on December 17th

Well they do hurl (logs).

It might be fun to see a guy charge into a group of enemies and then begin spinning around rapidly, slicing them up nicely.

That would actually be REALLY SCARY. Especially if they had whirling skirts.

You know they came out with a new class, it's called "the Ritualist"

You're the first one to document them? That must make you pretty famous then

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi

wikipedia ftw! Being a muslim myself, I got a couple of opportunities, when I was still a kid to watch this guys -.-, quite scary at first sight, stabbing yourself with like 10+ knifes, bleeding and yet not feeling pain. Talk about being emo :P