Dervishes Facts for Kids

Dervish State was members of a Dhulbahante anti-colonial state founded in Dareema Caddo from 1896 to 1920 called Darawiish; geographically synonymous with Khatumo and a successor state to the Dhulbahante garaadship. It may also refer to:

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Sufi dervish, a Tarika for asceticism
Whirling dervishes, a whirling ritual by followers of Rumi
Dervish Blues, 1975 album by Johnny Winter
The Dervish and Death, a 1974 movie with Usnija Redžepova as protagonist

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Dervish with a lion and a tiger, Mughal painting, c. 1650
Ottoman Dervish portrayed by Amedeo Preziosi, 1860s circa, Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României
Whirling dervishes, Rumi Fest 2007
The dance of the dervishes, Athens, Ottoman Greece, by Dodwell
A Mahdist Dervish from Sudan (1899)
Dervish Azerbaijani rug, XIX c. Tabriz school, State Museum of Azerbaijan Carpet and Applied Art
Ottoman Dervishes portrayed by Amedeo Preziosi in Istanbul, 1857
A Qajar-era Persian dervish, seen here from an 1873 depiction of Tehran's Grand Bazaar
An Ottoman Dervish in Istanbul, 1878
Dervishes photographed by William H. Rau near Damascus, circa 1903
A Palestinian Dervish in 1913
Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi, leader of the Sudanese Dervishes
Sufi kashkuls were often made from a coco de mer which ordinary beggars would have difficulty to find
Kashkul, or Beggar’s Bowl, with Portrait of Dervishes and a Mounted Falconer, A.H. 1280. Brooklyn Museum
A Gathering of Dervishes in the Mughal Empire
A family of Dervishes, possibly by Antoin Sevruguin (between 1876 and 1925)
The dance of the dervishes, Athens
Sufi dervishes in Omdurman, Sudan
Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, head of Darawiish
A Sheikh of the Rifa'i Sufi Order

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