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{{short description|Sufi order in Islam}}
{{redirect|Mevlevi|other uses|Mevlevi (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Mevlevi Order
| image                    = [[File:Sufi calligraphy.png|x200px|Sufi calligraphy]]
| caption                  = Seal of the Mevlevi
| size                     = 200px
| abbreviation             = Mevlevi
| formation                = {{start date and age|1273}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://sufism.org/origins/mevlevi/the-mevlevi-order-2|title=sufism [Sufism]|website=www.sufism.org|date=22 November 2003 }}</ref>
| native name              = {{langx|tr|Mevlevi Dergahi}}
| headquarters             = [[Konya]], Turkey
| founder                  = [[Sultan Veled|Veled]]
| founding_location        = [[Sultanate of Rum]]
| type                     = [[Dervish]] order
| membership               = ca. 2,000 as of 2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/features/modern-day-dervishes-followers-turkeys-rumi|title = middle east eye;}}</ref>
| leader_title             = Makam Chalabi (Chief Master)
| leader_name              = Faruk Hemdem
| leader_title2            = [[Wali]]
| leader_name2             = [[Rumi]]
| main_organ               = [[Diyanet]]
| website                  = 
}}
{{Infobox intangible heritage
| ICH = Mevlevi Sema Ceremony
| State Party = Turkey
| ID = 00100
| Region = ENA
| Year = 2008
| Session = 3rd
| List = Representative
}}
{{Sufism|Orders}}
[[File:Whirling Dervishes at Hodjapasha.jpg|thumb|[[Hodjapasha Culture Center]] is a restored Ottoman hamam (Turkish bath) in Istanbul's Sirkeci district now used for performances of the Mevlevi (whirling dervish) sema.]]

The '''Mevlevi Order''' or '''Mawlawiyya''' ({{langx|tr|Mevlevilik}}; {{langx|fa|طریقت مولویه}}) is a [[Sufism|Sufi]] order that originated in [[Konya]], Turkey (formerly capital of the [[Sultanate of Rum]]) and which was founded by the followers of [[Rumi|Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi]], a 13th-century [[Persians|Persian]] poet, Sufi [[mysticism|mystic]], and theologian.<ref>Julia Scott Meisami, Forward to Franklin Lewis, Rumi Past and Present, East and West, Oneworld Publications, 2008 (revised edition)</ref> The Mevlevis are also known as the "'''whirling dervishes'''" due to their famous practice of [[Sufi whirling|whirling]] while performing ''[[dhikr]]'' (remembrance of [[God in Islam|God]]). [[Dervish]] is a common term for an initiate of the [[Sufi]] path; whirling is part of the formal [[sama (Sufism)|sema]] ceremony and the participants are properly known as ''semazens''.<ref name="semaz">{{cite book |last1=Gölpınarlı |first1=Abdülbâki |title=Mevlevî Âdâb ve erkâni |date=2017 |publisher=İnkılap Kitabevi}}</ref>

In 2005, [[UNESCO]] confirmed "The Mevlevi [[Sema]] Ceremony" as amongst the [[Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/intangible-heritage/39eur_uk.htm |title=The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=8 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426232331/http://www.unesco.org/culture/intangible-heritage/39eur_uk.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2014 }}</ref>