Editing Mevlevi Order (section)

=== Origins of ''Sema'' ===
[[File:Mevlevi dervishes 1887.jpg|thumb|left|Mevlevi [[whirling dervish]]es, 1887]]
According to a popular story, Rumi was first inspired to whirl when he heard the hammering of the goldsmiths in Konya's bazaar,<ref name=schimmel>{{cite book |last1=Schimmel |first1=Annemarie |title=Mystical Dimensions of Islam |url=https://archive.org/details/mysticaldimensio00schi |url-access=registration |date=1975 |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press}}</ref> however, Mevlevi historian [[Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı|Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı]] believed that Rumi must have learnt whirling from Shams of Tabriz.<ref name=semaz/> Şefik Can claimed that whirling was practiced among Sufis at least as early as Abu Sa’id Abu’l-Khayr (d. 1049).<ref name=can/> Though they have cultivated it to the highest degree, Mevlevis are not the only Sufis who practice whirling, and Kabir Helminski suggests primordial origins: "The practice of whirling may have its origins in the timeless shadows of Central Asian spirituality where shamans used it to induce altered states of consciousness."<ref name=heart/>