Mevlevi ayin

Summary

Mevlevi ayin is the composed vocal and instrumental repertory associated with the Mevlevi Sema ceremony. It belongs to a developed devotional musical world in which poetic meaning, makam, rhythmic organization and ritual progression work together. The familiar image of whirling participants shows only one part of that whole. An ayin is more specific than any atmospheric ney improvisation or concert marketed as Sufi music. Its cultural identity includes inherited compositions, trained musicians and the spiritual relationships through which the ceremony is understood and practiced.

Contemporary and trending

The repertory continues through musicians, teachers, ensembles, ceremonial groups, recordings and public performances. Konya and Istanbul remain defining references, while practitioners and students elsewhere sustain connected knowledge. Presentations vary in purpose and duration, from devotional occasions to concert or visitor-oriented programmes. A listener can enjoy an introductory performance while still learning how it relates to a fuller ceremony. Musical continuity depends on skilled transmission and attention to form, rather than on visual familiarity alone. Repertory study and practical ensemble experience contribute different but complementary kinds of understanding.

History

Mevlevi institutions developed from the religious and literary world associated with Jalal al-Din Rumi and expanded within the Ottoman sphere. Their lodges became consequential places for musical learning as well as devotion. The closure of religious lodges in the early Turkish Republic profoundly altered the conditions of transmission and public practice. Later permitted performances and renewed groups created new pathways, with different relationships to ritual and cultural presentation. This history requires attention to changing institutions rather than a claim that every modern performance either perfectly preserves or entirely abandons an original form.

Musical characteristics

Listen to the interplay between voice, ney, percussion and other instruments, and to the way a composed sequence unfolds beyond an isolated beautiful phrase. Ayin organization includes multiple sections, while makam and rhythmic cycles shape expectation and transition. Instrumental introductions or improvisations can prepare the listener for what follows, but are not equivalent to the complete work. The ney is especially recognizable, yet its expressive power emerges through breathing, articulation and melodic knowledge. A long performance rewards attention to pacing and return as well as to immediately striking timbre.

Geography and communities

Konya and Istanbul are linked centers inside a wider Turkish devotional and art-music public. Broad overlapping central and northwestern fields represent musicians, teaching and cultural familiarity beyond the doors of a single lodge. Western European learning and diaspora networks form a weaker detached continuation. The map is not intended to reproduce the historical reach of an order as a current audience census. It follows living connections among practitioners, institutions and listeners, while leaving room for other Turkish religious and musical traditions whose territories overlap but whose repertories differ.

Artists

Composers such as Dede Efendi and Itrî connect the repertory to wider Ottoman musical history. Ney artists including Niyazi Sayın and Kudsi Erguner provide different recorded and pedagogical routes into its sound world. Erguner's Smithsonian recording documents related instrumental forms and teaching connections, but should not be mistaken for a complete ceremonial ayin. Vocalists, percussionists and ensemble directors deserve parallel attention. Comparing an instrumental excerpt with a full composition makes clear how individual mastery contributes to a larger musical and ritual architecture.

Representative performances

These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

MuGlobe listening profile

Repertoire	Field use	Notes
classical	regional	Comprehensive catalogue; recent discovery is prioritized and worthwhile older music remains playable. Preserve specific recording contexts and dates.

MuGlobe representative performances

Artist	Performance / song / title	Embedded player URL	Notes	Repertoire kind	Repertoire date	Recording date	Format	Opening	Places	Fit	Evidence	Review note	MuGlobe favorite	Current hit	Authentic
Cinuçen Tanrıkorur	Bayâtîaraban Mevlevî Âyîn-i Şerîfi — Radio France/Ocora, 1984	https://www.youtube.com/embed/jcnT2-xEkBo	The composer performs his Mevlevi ayin on oud and voice in the documented Radio France recording. This reduced musical rendition is not presented as a complete sema ceremony with its full ensemble and ritual actions.	classical	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	pending	Existing recording	Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.	false	false	false
Konya Türk Tasavvuf Müziği Topluluğu	Bayati Araban Ayin-i Şerifi — Cinuçen Tanrıkorur	https://www.youtube.com/embed/KC6dtyWKTHI	The Konya Turkish Sufi Music Ensemble's own performance of Tanrıkorur's composition. This ensemble interpretation complements the composer's voice-and-oud recording and distinguishes the composer from the performers. Embedded playback is currently unavailable (YouTube code 150); the recording reference is retained.	classical	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	pending	Existing recording	Playback blocked: YouTube embedding error 150 observed 20 October 2026. Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.	false	false	false
Mutriban Ensemble; İbrahim Suat Erbay; Yasin Özçimi; Hüseyin Avni Özaydın; Hasan Kiriş	Sûzidîl Mevlevî Âyîni Şerîfi - Mutriban Ensemble	https://www.youtube.com/embed/It5uVEG8q3M	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Zahit İpek. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-04-26. Primary Yenikapı Sûzidîl ayin identifies actual Naat/ney/taksim players and concluding Qur’an reciter Murat Taştekin; composer Emin Dede not a current musician. Traditional full rite, not a newly invented pop vocal credit. Video publication: 2026-09-13; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2026-04-26	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Zahit İpek. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2026-04-26. Primary Yenikapı Sûzidîl ayin identifies actual Naat/ney/taksim players and concluding Qur’an reciter Murat Taştekin; composer Emin Dede not a current musician. Traditional full rite, not a newly invented pop vocal credit.	false	false	false
Mutriban Ensemble	Rast Mevlevî Âyîn-i Şerîfi - Mutriban Ensemble - 16 Kasım 2025	https://www.youtube.com/embed/jEqF368_cgk	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Zahit İpek. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-11-16. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2026-04-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2025-11-16	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Zahit İpek. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-11-16. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu; Büşra Biçer; Hüseyin Avni Özaydın; Özata Ayan	İTTMT - Hüzzam Mevlevî Ayin-i Şerifi - 23.12.2025 (Alt Yazılı ve Açıklamalı)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/S3eJh3YMtrw?start=906	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-12-23. Primary AKM performance subtitles/annotations are not a spoken lecture. Start at documented Naat15:06 after ceremonial preparation/entrances; full musical ayin and traditional closing rite preserved. Composer Tanburi Osman Bey not a current performer. Video publication: 2026-04-04; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2025-12-23	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2025-12-23. Primary AKM performance subtitles/annotations are not a spoken lecture. Start at documented Naat15:06 after ceremonial preparation/entrances; full musical ayin and traditional closing rite preserved. Composer Tanburi Osman Bey not a current performer.	false	false	false
Konya Türk Tasavvuf Müziği Topluluğu	KONYA TÜRK TASAVVUF MÜZİĞİ TOPLULUĞU Hüseyin Fahrettin Dede'nin Acemaşiran Mevlevi Ayin-i Şerifi	https://www.youtube.com/embed/CiTu71o-SME	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Konya Türk Tasavvuf Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2024-06-29. Primary state ensemble explicitly dates actual live Acemaşiran ayin29June2024. HüseyinFahrettinDede composer,2025 upload separate; complete selam/peşrev sequence musical. Video publication: 2025-10-09; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2024-06-29	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Konya Türk Tasavvuf Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2024-06-29. Primary state ensemble explicitly dates actual live Acemaşiran ayin29June2024. HüseyinFahrettinDede composer,2025 upload separate; complete selam/peşrev sequence musical.	false	false	false
Ahmet Çalışır; Murat Salim Tokaç; Mevlevi ayin ensemble	Segah Mevlevi Ayini - Buhurizade Mustafa Efendi - Itri	https://www.youtube.com/embed/w0TLxikeVwM	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Metropol Music Production Channel Turkey. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary2010 album credits actual Naat/recitation Ahmet Çalışır and closing tanbur Murat Salim Tokaç. Itri/NayiOsmanDede/NeyzenSalimBey are composers; label Metropol not the musician. Video publication: 2024-06-22; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Metropol Music Production Channel Turkey. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary2010 album credits actual Naat/recitation Ahmet Çalışır and closing tanbur Murat Salim Tokaç. Itri/NayiOsmanDede/NeyzenSalimBey are composers; label Metropol not the musician.	false	false	false
Sadreddin Özçimi; ensemble	Sultanıyegah Taksim & Ferahfeza Mevlevi Ayini "4. Selam" - Sadreddin Özçimi	https://www.youtube.com/embed/8W2HSHzpyko	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Lila Müzik. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Sultanıyegah taksim and Ferahfeza4thSelam from Mevlana Museum commemorative album.800th-anniversary context is not2023 new session; Dede Efendi is composer. Video publication: 2023-02-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Lila Müzik. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Sultanıyegah taksim and Ferahfeza4thSelam from Mevlana Museum commemorative album.800th-anniversary context is not2023 new session; Dede Efendi is composer.	false	false	false
İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu	İTTMT - Mevlevi Ayini Bestekarları ve Eserleri Konseri / 07.10.2020	https://www.youtube.com/embed/UkEjNK7FEoI	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2020-10-07. Actual composed-ayin repertoire concert, not a generic Sufi playlist or an artist lecture; original composer dates not session. Video publication: 2022-01-15; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2020-10-07	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2020-10-07. Actual composed-ayin repertoire concert, not a generic Sufi playlist or an artist lecture; original composer dates not session.	false	false	false
Meali-yi Sema musical ensemble (individuals uncredited)	17 Aralık 2021 Meali-yi Sema Nayi Osman Dede'nin Rast Mevlevi Ayin-i Şerifi	https://www.youtube.com/embed/dbn0vfFRhSk	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: MEFTUN. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2021-12-17. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2021-12-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2021-12-17	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: MEFTUN. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2021-12-17. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
Konya Mevlana Kültür Merkezi ayin ensemble	Sûzidilara Mevlevî Âyin-i Şerif’i	https://www.youtube.com/embed/RHkHMcMtPqc	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Semazen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2020-10-31. Actual Sûzidilara composed by SultanSelimIII at documented internationalMevlana center event; composer not present performer. Video publication: 2020-11-08; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2020-10-31	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Semazen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2020-10-31. Actual Sûzidilara composed by SultanSelimIII at documented internationalMevlana center event; composer not present performer.	false	false	false
Havva Nur Balcı	Rast Mevlevî Âyini Son Peşrev ve Son Yürük	https://www.youtube.com/embed/H-UuwkXlqRc	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Havva Nur Balcı. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary self-contained musical performance of actual Rast closing peşrev/yürük component; no spoken instruction or invented full-ceremony claim. Video publication: 2020-10-21; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Havva Nur Balcı. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary self-contained musical performance of actual Rast closing peşrev/yürük component; no spoken instruction or invented full-ceremony claim.	false	false	false
Konya Türk Tasavvuf Müziği Topluluğu	Acembuselik Mevlevi Ayini Şerifi	https://www.youtube.com/embed/vnu0392HHYk	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Ney ve Tanbur Dinletileri. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018-12-17. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2020-07-15; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2018-12-17	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Ney ve Tanbur Dinletileri. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018-12-17. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
Ahmed Şahin; Sadreddin Özçimi; TRT Meşk ensemble	Ahmed Şahin ile Meşk - Ney Taksimi, Ferahfezâ Mevlevi Âyini 1. Selam, 4. Selam, Son Peşrev&Son Yürük	https://www.youtube.com/embed/ovPEXTsa5ns	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Ahmed Şahin ile Meşk. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual named ney/ayin vocal ensemble’s Ferahfeza selections and taksim; composer Dede Efendi not a current voice. Musical broadcast segment, not whole talk show. Video publication: 2020-02-26; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Ahmed Şahin ile Meşk. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual named ney/ayin vocal ensemble’s Ferahfeza selections and taksim; composer Dede Efendi not a current voice. Musical broadcast segment, not whole talk show.	false	false	false
İstanbul Meydan Meşkleri Topluluğu	Acemaşiran Mevlevi Ayini | İDTMAUT | Tasavvuf, İrfan ve Meydan Meşkleri Bölümü	https://www.youtube.com/embed/V4nD-W60mAM?start=79	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Meydan Meşkleri Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Acemaşiran musical rite; start at Naat01:19 following girizgah, not an unrelated generic ney meditation. Video publication: 2019-05-26; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Meydan Meşkleri Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Acemaşiran musical rite; start at Naat01:19 following girizgah, not an unrelated generic ney meditation.	false	false	false
TUMAC İcra Heyeti; Rûhî Ayangil; Memduh Özyalvaç	TUMAC BSE No.1 - Dinleti: Ferahfezâ Mevlevî Âyîn-i Şerîfi, Hammâmîzâde İsmail Dede Efendi	https://www.youtube.com/embed/6IGQqwAdD8M	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Türk Müziği Akademik Çevresi. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019-01-26. Primary explicitly says this performance followed Ozan Baysal’s separate presentation. Actual musical recording credits Ayangil kanun/voice, Özyalvaç Naat/ayin, Aslıhan Eruzun Özel kemençe, Korkutalp Bilgin tanbur, Burçin Bahadır Güner ud, Ahmet C.Altınkaynak ney, Bâkî Enis Balakbabalar percussion; lecturer not substituted as singer. Video publication: 2019-03-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2019-01-26	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Türk Müziği Akademik Çevresi. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019-01-26. Primary explicitly says this performance followed Ozan Baysal’s separate presentation. Actual musical recording credits Ayangil kanun/voice, Özyalvaç Naat/ayin, Aslıhan Eruzun Özel kemençe, Korkutalp Bilgin tanbur, Burçin Bahadır Güner ud, Ahmet C.Altınkaynak ney, Bâkî Enis Balakbabalar percussion; lecturer not substituted as singer.	false	false	false
İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu	Sûzidil Mevlevi Ayin-i Şerifi / Yenikapı Mevlevihanesi / İTTMT	https://www.youtube.com/embed/D6Y4PSBot6Y	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2018-12-06; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2018	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
İstanbul Meydan Meşkleri Topluluğu	Hicaz Mevlevi Ayini | İstanbul Meydan Meşkleri Topluluğu	https://www.youtube.com/embed/JkKQ-zJaQkw?start=91	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Meydan Meşkleri Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2018-11-21; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Meydan Meşkleri Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu	Sûz-i Dilârâ Mevlevi Ayin-i Şerifi / Galata Mevlevihanesi / İTTMT	https://www.youtube.com/embed/vAIQUKrSgG0	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2018-07-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: İstanbul Tarihi Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
Timuçin Çevikoğlu; ensemble	RAST MEVLEVİ AYİNİ (Kutbünnâyî Osmân Dede) - Timuçin Çevikoğlu	https://www.youtube.com/embed/QEaQH1SGnoM	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Meşk / Klâsik Türk Müziği. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Rast ayin recording; KutbünnayiOsmanDede is composer and BurakKaynarca engineer, not current lead voices. Video publication: 2018-03-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Meşk / Klâsik Türk Müziği. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Rast ayin recording; KutbünnayiOsmanDede is composer and BurakKaynarca engineer, not current lead voices.	false	false	false
Galata Mevlevihanesi musical ensemble	Dede Efendi Hüzzam Mevlevi Ayin-i Şerifi // Maulawi Sema Ceremony Sufi Music	https://www.youtube.com/embed/7V-lM6EVagM	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Canlar Meclisi. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-12-18. Actual Hüzzam ayin; postnişin AhmetKadriYetişDede not automatically every musical voice, DedeEfendi composer. Video publication: 2016-12-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2016-12-18	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Canlar Meclisi. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-12-18. Actual Hüzzam ayin; postnişin AhmetKadriYetişDede not automatically every musical voice, DedeEfendi composer.	false	false	false
Özer Özel; Kemal Karaöz	Özer Özel&Kemal Karaöz - Ferahfeza Mevlevi Ayin-i Şerifi (Peşrev 4.Hane Son Peşrev Son Yürük Semai)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Fo1vUJidaM	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Özer Özel. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-12-09. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2016-12-13; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2016-12-09	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Özer Özel. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-12-09. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
Konya Türk Tasavvuf Müziği Topluluğu	Konya Türk Tasavvuf Müziği Topluluğu ~ Cérémonie Mevlevi Sema	https://www.youtube.com/embed/yKwSa7JNXVE	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Guy Ferdinande. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-01-06. Actual orchestral musical portion of MevleviSema at CentreCulturelJacquesFranck SaintGilles; ceremony-specific setting, not arbitrary ney solo. Video publication: 2016-01-07; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2016-01-06	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Guy Ferdinande. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2016-01-06. Actual orchestral musical portion of MevleviSema at CentreCulturelJacquesFranck SaintGilles; ceremony-specific setting, not arbitrary ney solo.	false	false	false
Özer Özel; Ahmed Şahin	Özer Özel & Ahmed Şahin - Ferahfeza Ayin-i Şerifi 4. Selam (Dede Efendi)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/6h0u5NRxMYc	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Özer Özel. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2013-12-10. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music. Video publication: 2015-05-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	2013-12-10	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Özer Özel. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2013-12-10. Specific composed Mevlevi ayin or documented selam/peşrev component performed by actual ensemble. Ottoman composer is not a present-day performer. Full ceremonies may include their traditional closing recitation/gülbank; not sermon-only or generic ambient ney music.	false	false	false
Mâverâ Türk Müziği Topluluğu; Hüseyin Kutsi Sezgin; Volkan Yılmaz; Osman Kırklıkçı	Hüzzam Mevlevi Ayin-i Şerifi Hamamizâde İsmail Dede Efendi Mâverâ Türk Müziği Topluluğu	https://www.youtube.com/embed/5BTFLHbj0OY	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Mâverâ Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual named Naat/ney/ud and ensemble in complete Hüzzam ayin; traditional closing recitation and gülbank distinguished from unrelated talk. Video publication: 2015-01-19; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: Mâverâ Türk Müziği Topluluğu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual named Naat/ney/ud and ensemble in complete Hüzzam ayin; traditional closing recitation and gülbank distinguished from unrelated talk.	false	false	false
Hicaz ayin ensemble (performers uncredited)	Hicaz Mevlevî Ayini - Abdürrahim Kûnhî Dede (1-2-3-4. Selam)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/TC8AaEQ1Z5c	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: anchizet. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual four-selam Hicaz ayin archive; AbdürrahimKunhiDede composer. Description’s4ses/kızney identifies transposition/register, not four named singers. Video publication: 2013-05-15; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	classical	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Turkey	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mevlevi ayin musical recording. Source: anchizet. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual four-selam Hicaz ayin archive; AbdürrahimKunhiDede composer. Description’s4ses/kızney identifies transposition/register, not four named singers.	false	false	false

Related genres

Ottoman classical music supplies a closely related formal and pedagogical world, while the ayin's ceremonial role gives it a particular identity. Alevi-Bektaşi semah belongs to another community and ritual history; similar turning imagery does not make the two interchangeable. Other Sufi repertories likewise require their own accounts. The most productive introduction joins immediate sonic pleasure to gradually learned context, allowing a newcomer to hear why the relationship between composition, performance and devotional purpose matters as much as the famous visual movement.

References and further reading

• The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony — UNESCO

Hotspot mushrooms

Two connected Turkish historical/living devotional-art landscapes with weaker European teaching/diaspora continuity. Broader fields express cultural familiarity and transmission, not only performance venues or all former imperial territory.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms

ID	Location	Latitude	Longitude	Radius (km)	Strength	Notes
mevlevi-ayin-central	Konya and central Anatolian Mevlevi musical landscape	38	32.5	900	1	Ceremonial, educational and wider cultural familiarity.
mevlevi-ayin-northwestern	Istanbul-linked Mevlevi musical landscape	40.5	29	850	1	Composed repertory, teaching and devotional/art-music networks.
mevlevi-ayin-european	Western European Mevlevi music learning circuit	49	5	1000	0.35	Practitioner, student and diaspora connections.