Haci Bektas Veli and the Cem Ceremony
The Perfect Man said to have come to Anatolia in the form of a dove… The philosophy…
Yunus Emre “Art of Being Perfect Man”
In Sufism and other mystical currents, man in his normal state is man in name only. He…
Mevlana and The Whirling Dance
There is such an ecstasy in the submission and orphan-like leaning on the right arm of the…
The Path of Amazement
(Seyyid Seyfullah Nizamoglu was a leader of the Helveti Sufi order. His devotional poems range from folk…
But This World Cannot Compass Me
(Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi, (died c. 1418, Aleppo, Syria), mystical poet of the late 14th and early 15th…
The Path of the Beautiful
(At a young age, Ali Izzet became an asik or ashik — a wandering minstrel who travels…
Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz
O thou who art my soul’s comfort in the season of sorrow, O thou who art my…
Seeking the Source
a voice out of this world calls on our souls not to wait any more get ready…
Let Them Have Paradise
My eyes exist to see You. My hands exist to reach You. Today I set my life…
I Made My Intellect A Friend to Me
(Kul Himmet was born in central Turkey. His poetry was very influential in the Alevi-Bektashi Sufi tradition.)…