Turkey

 

 

 

History

 

Institutions

 

Practitioners

Cimen Guldoker

Sevin Seda Guney

Ozlem Lale Kaleli

Dr.  Mesut Nalcakan

 

 

News

 

Texts

 

Turner, William: Howling dervishes at Constantinople, 19/09/1816

Anonymous: Tarantism in the Troad

Lennep : Worship of the Kizilbash tribe in Asia Minor, 1864

Wittmann : Easter amusements at the cemeterey of Pera, Constantinople, 1799

Bisani : Greeks after the plague at Smyrna, August 1788

Mariti : Circumscision in Turkey, 1762

Covel : Ramazan in Magnesia (Manesia), Asia Minor, 1675-1677

 

 

Images

 

 

 

 

Kalem, Ustat Mehmed Siyal

Shaman dancing with the spirits      

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color. 1450 Approximately. 22.8 x 49 cm   

 

 

Two black shamans dancing  

Print, color. 1450  Approximate date