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We’re delighted to have the chance to adapt THE DERVISH HOUSE for the screen, set in that most iconic of cities, crossroads of east and west, past and future, Istanbul.

Here the action percolates - you can't say swirls - around a dervish house in Adem Dede Square in central Istanbul, where once upon a time whirling dancers sought spiritual ecstasy.

Here's your weekend book deal: Pyr Books is making ebooks of Ian McDonald's Hugo-nominated novel The Dervish House available for $1.99 for a limited time.

Activists of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority who have been forced to live far from home after release from prison have rejected an Iranian official’s contention that Tehran has no ...