These images were taken at a regular Friday Sufi ritual at the Hamad El Niel Mosque in Khartoum, Sudan. The weekly ceremony is an expression of divine love and attracts hundreds of participants and spectators from the area. Photography was welcomed by the elders as dervishes whirled around the expanding circle, caught up in their transcendent rapport with the divine.

Sufism, or as some say, the Sufi Way, is considered by many as the mystical branch of Islam. Sufism is practiced worldwide.