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Tanoura: The Egyptian Dervish Dance Tanoura: The Egyptian Dervish Dance
by Laurel Victoria Gray

Reasearch into the Egyptian version of the Sufi "whirling dervish" dance, an ancient spiritual practice.

Read more about the history of dervishes in Egypt at
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/mawlawi.htm

"For a dervish, there must be a purpose,
a cause for existence, and inside the cause,
a True Human Being."
Jelaluddin Rumi


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