A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.
in modern times, a member of an ascetic Mohammedan sect notable for its devotional exercises, which include energetic chanting or shouting and rhythmic bodily movement, such as whirling, leading to a trance-like state or ecstasy. From these exercises the phrase whirling dervish is derived.
figuratively, a person who whirls or engages in frenzied activity reminiscent of the dervish{3} dancing.
Turkish (from the Persian darvesh, beggar) -- a member of any of various Muslim orders dedicated to a life of poverty and chastity. Some practice whirling and howling as religious acts.
An ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements
"Poor one," synonymous with fakir, a formal member of an order. IN the Qadiri Rifai, a salik who has attained maturity on the path
Originally a reference to the experience of opening the door in the morning to find a guy in a patched cloak camped in the recessed doorway of your house. Means, variously and according to context, an initiate of a Sufi school, one such possessing a particularly uncompromising attitude toward Truth, or someone having crossed the threshold of enlightenment.
A Sufi, a member of a Sufi Order. Best known are the “whirling†dervishes; their order was founded by Jelaluddin Rumi, the great Sufi philosopher and poet.
(Pers., Engl.: poor) Dervish is the name used to denote a member of Islamic order (tariqa) who lives a life of poverty under the leadership of a sheikh (leader) and endeavors to minimize their bodily functions through religious exercises, in order to release their souls of all physical compusions. This includes 40-day periods of meditation with fasting and little sleep and, in some orders, listening to music and the dhikr, a combination of prayers and invocations of Gog with physical movements.
Moslem religious enthusiasts.
The word Dervish, especially in European languages, refers to members of Sufi Muslim ascetic religious fraternities, known for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars.