By Emily Snyder, "Carleton Humanities Center Sponsors Screening of Sufi Mystical Poem Interpretation" - Carleton College News - Carleton, MN, USAThursday, April 9, 2009
Northfield: Carleton College will screen a modern dance interpretation of Beauty and Love, a Sufi mystical poem on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. in Carleton's Gould Library Athenaeum.
The video screening will be followed by a discussion led by Carleton graduate and University of Washington professor and Ottoman scholar Walter Andrews.
A Mediterranean reception will immediately follow the discussion. This event is free and open to the public.
The modern dance interpretation of the Sufi mystical poem will be performed in the Mevlevi (Rumi) tradition, a Sufi order established in present-day Turkey.
The Mevlevi tradition uses dance performance as a form of remembrance of God, or dhikr. The dance represents an individual’s spiritual ascent through mind and love to reach “Perfect,” a journey that involves abandoning the ego to arrive at truth. Whirling is the most common type of dance to use as a form of dhikr, which earns the Mevlevi tradition its alternate identity as the “Whirling Dervishes.”
Andrews, a distinguished Ottoman scholar, specializes in Ottoman and Turkish literature. His most recent book, titled The Age of the Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society, was co-authored with Mehmet Kalpakli. The book explores the sex, spirituality, and politics of Ottoman historical culture through lyrical poetry, along with the extension of the “age of beloveds” into Western Europe through a closer examination of Venice, Rome, Florence, and London.
For more information regarding the screening, discussion, or library reception, please contact Mary Tatge at (507) 222-4252.
The Humanities Center and Carleton’s religion and theatre and dance departments sponsor this event.
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