Dervish (disambiguation)

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A dervish is a Sufi Muslim ascetic.

Dervish or darvish may also refer to:

Movements

• Dervish movement (Somali), the polity of Diiriye Guure
• Sudanese Dervish or mahdists

Music

• Dervish (band), an Irish folk band
• Sufi whirling, a type of dance
  • Whirling Dervishes

People

• Dervish Ali Astrakhani (died 1558), Khan of the Astrakhan Khanate
• Dervish Bejah (1862–1957), Australian camel driver
• Dervish Cara, Albanian revolutionary leader
• Dervish Grady
  , a character in the Demonata series by Darren Shan
• Dervish Hima (1872–1928), Albanian politician
• Kamal Derwish (1973–2002), American citizen killed by the CIA
• Yu Darvish (born 1986), Japanese baseball player

Video games

• An early name in development for The Arbiter in the Halo video game series
• A profession in Guild Wars Nightfall
• A type of cat in the Postal 2, expansion Apocalypse Weekend
• A car in the racing game Death Rally
• A heavy fighter aircraft in PlanetSide 2

Other uses

• Dervish (rocket), an American air-launched rocket of the 1950s
• Dervish Convoy
  , the first of the Allied Arctic convoys of World War II

See also

• Derviş, a Turkish surname meaning Dervish
• All pages with titles beginning with dervish
• All pages with titles beginning with darvish
• All pages with titles containing dervish
• All pages with titles containing darvish
• Darwish
• Dervish Mehmed Pasha (disambiguation)
• Dervish Pasha (disambiguation)

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