Dedham Andach: Maulana Rumi’s First Darvishni

In 1983, Dedham Andach first noticed the well-known dervish dance at Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi’s mausoleum in Konya, Turkey.

Dedim was once learning on the Maamar Sinan High quality Arts College in Istanbul on the time, however she was once so impressed by means of the dance that she made up our minds to surrender the entirety and turn into Rumi’s dervish. Quickly she become the primary feminine dervish within the 750-year historical past of Sama at Maulana Rumi’s shrine.

Talking to Impartial Turkey, Andach mentioned:

‘I carried out the dance for the primary time in 1993 at Mahfil-e-Darwish, or even the folks in my troupe have been stunned as it was once an excessively daring resolution. The backlash from conservatives was once expected and my grandfather was once ready for it. The participation of women and men in Sama in combination has been happening for the reason that time of Maulana. Dewana Muhammad, grandson of Maulana Rumi himself, made women and men dance in combination in Afion Maulvi Khanqah within the sixteenth century.

Maulana Rumi’s Dervish dance has turn into essentially the most well-known and well known dance on the planet. All through this dance, dervishes dressed in white turkish caps and white jabes transfer round in a circle with one hand pointing against the sky and the opposite against the earth.

Each and every facet of this dance has explicit mystical symbolism. The dance starts with the black jawa, which symbolizes the earthly comforts. Because the dance intensifies, the dervishes throw off the black gowns, signifying that they have got grew to become their backs at the global.

Whilst spinning, the dervish holds the suitable hand with the palm open, the opposite hand dealing with downwards. It approach receiving the heavenly blessing with the higher hand and shifting it to the earth with the decrease hand.

Andach says she confronted numerous resistance to start with, however ‘there’s no worry in our hearts, most effective love of God. We see the radiance of God’s good looks in human beings, from Nabi Akram to Maulana Rumi.’

Impressed by means of Dedham, many different girls additionally made up our minds to observe the similar trail.

Every other dervish is Jamra Gench, who began dancing on the age of 21. She says {that a} pal of hers examine Dedham in a newspaper and informed her. This additionally were given Jamra .

The coming of ladies has given a brand new measurement to the dance of the dervish (AA)

That is once I made up our minds to turn into a dervish, she says: ‘My center mentioned that is my actual house. There is not any distinction between women and men.’ She says that ‘God has given everybody the similar thoughts, and their souls also are the similar. After the frame is long past, what stays is the soul.’

In step with Jamra: ‘I consider that the fervour of affection emerges from seek. Within the first strains of Maulana’s Masnavi, it’s written that for the reason that girl was once separated from the bamboo, the situation of women and men has turn into worse.