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Sufi elegance: The tiny Turkish atelier handcrafting sikke headpieces / 348729E
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The tall light brown hats worn by whirling dervishes are as intriguing as the elliptical dance performed in honour of the Sufi poet and mystic Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi. In Turkey's Konya, where Rumi died 750 years ago, can be found one of the last workshops still making the special "sikke" hats to order -- which signifies the tombstone -- the end of life on Earth when the dancer meets God.
Yunus Girgic, shop owner, refuses to sell sikkes to tourists because they are exclusively reserved for real dervish dancers. " IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES