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Mendicant dervish.

Dervishes dancing in Istanbul teke.

Dervish.

Dancing dervish.

Dervishes praying.

“Howling dervishes” (members of the Rifayah order) praying.

Whirling dervishes.

“Howling dervish” (member of the Rifayah order).

“Howling dervishes” (members of the Rifayah order) praying.

The dance of the Dervishes.

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens. The Acropolis in the background. The person standing at the entrance of the monument with his back turned is Seikh Mustafa, chief of the order of Whirling Dervishes, who used the monument as their tekije (dervish lodge). The image also depicts an woman from affluent family promenading with her daughters and maidservant.

Itinerant Muslim pilgrim.

Dervish of the Kalenderi sect.

Dervish.

Dervish.

Muslim hermit able to tame wild animals due to having lived among them for a long time.

Mohammed Rushien Efendi, voivod of Athens, by Louis Dupré.

Score with extract of the tune to which the Whirling Dervishes dance.

Dervish tekije (lodge).

The tune to which the whirling dervishes of Pera dance (transcribed for keyboard instrument).

Dervish.

Saka, dervish who distributes water on the street for charity.

Dervish from India.

Dervishes in the Pera teke, finishing their dance.

Religious ceremonies of the Dervises.

Dervishes dancing.

Whirling dervishes.

Interior of the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds),which in the early 19th century functioned as a Dervish tekke (lodge).

Dervish.

The superior of a Mevlevi dervish order.