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dervish
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
dervish , see fakir ; Rumi, Jalal ad-Din .
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dervish Member of a Muslim fraternity. Communities arose within Sufism...and were suppressed by Atatürk . The chief devotion of dervishes is dhikr (‘remembering of God’). Its encouragement of emotional display and hypnotic trances has earned dervishes the epithet ‘whirling’.
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dervish a Muslim (specifically Sufi) religious man or woman who has taken vows of poverty and austerity. Dervishes first appeared in the 12th century; they were noted for...rituals and were known as dancing, whirling, or howling dervishes according to the practice of their order. The name comes...
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