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Dervish (disambiguation)

A Dervish is a Sufi Muslim ascetic.

Dervish or darvish may also refer to:

  • Dervish movement, a 20th-century Somali Sunni Muslim revolt
  • Derviş, a Turkish surname
  • A nickname for the Sudanese mahdists
  • Dervish Convoy, the first of the Allied Arctic convoys of World War II
  • Sufi whirling, a type of dance
  • Dervish (band), an Irish folk band
  • Dervish (rocket), an American air-launched rocket of the 1950s

Gaming

  • 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 game made for the ZX spectrum home computer system Dervish

People

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

See also

  • 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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