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A gentle face of Islam

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December 24, 2015

Every visitor to Turkey knows them: the whirling dervishes. Their dance symbolizes a peaceful dimension of Islam, Sufism. Faced with the threat of Islamist fundamentalism, it's currently enjoying a renaissance.

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