and Rumi... I just found out about a local group of Mevlevis and will possibly start attending some of their gatherings. At this point I'm still a little cautious about them and I hope they are more traditional than New Age-y (e.g. see Why Gurdjieff's "Fourth Way" Teachings are not Compatible with the Mevlevi Sufi by Ibrahim Gamard). We'll see how things go.
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salaam,
there are two Mevlevi groups that are active in the US - both are somewhat new agey, one more than the other... but they both also include serious students of Islam ...
The site I linked to above claims to be pretty official and connected to Rumi's living descendant and names certain Shaikhs named for the US. I don't know if you are calling them 1 or 2 (or 3) groups.
In addition, this link
http://www.uga.edu/islam/sufismwest.html
names a group called the Mevlevi Order of America and another called the Threshhold Society which both seem to be active.
I'm not sure which, if any, of the above you had in mind or which you think is more New Agey than the other.
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