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During Ottoman times, the Mevlevi order of Sufism produced several notable poets and musicians who are buried in Istanbul. With the modernization of Turkey in the 1920s, the new secular government closed all Sufi lodges and banned Sufi ceremonies and meetings. However, the mausoleum of Rumi in Konya was reopened as a museum. In the 1950s, the Turkish government began allowing an annual whirling dervish performance in Konya to commemorate Rumi

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Abd Al-Nur

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