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As the sun prepared to set, we climbed to a rooftop to observe a dervish whirl.
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So instead of whirling like a dervish, this time Weiner was trying to be still.
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After Berke was converted by the dervish Seiffedin, he became a devout Muslim.
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And in our 20s we're on a social whirlwind that would tire out a whirling dervish.
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A moment later she is running like a girl or jumping dervish-like in tight circles.
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Brittany sings lead, does her dervish dance and vomits purple puke in Rachel's face.
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The dervish agreed to let us observe if we understood what the ritual meant.
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One man spun an Egyptian flag around him in the style of a whirling dervish.
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The jewel in this crown is a whirling dervish of a bandshell by Frank Gehry.
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- An ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements
- A dervish or darvesh (from Persian: u062Fu0631u0648u06CCu0634u200Eu200E, Darvu012Bsh via Turkish, Somali: Daraawiish, Arabic: u062Fu0631u0648u064Au0634u200Eu200E, Darwu012Bu0161) is someone guiding a Sufi Muslim ascetic down a path or "Tariqah", known for their extreme poverty and austerity. His focus is on the universal values of love and service, deserting the illusions of ego to reach God...
- Dervish are an Irish traditional music group from County Sligo, Ireland who have been described by BBC Radio 3 as "an icon of Irish music". They were formed in 1989 by Liam Kelly, Shane Mitchell, Martin McGinley, Brian McDonagh, and Michael Holmes and have been fronted by singer Cathy Jordan since 1991...
- A member of Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning
- A Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity; a form of mendicant friars
- Literally means, "one who comes to the door"; member of a Muslim monastic order
- An Islamic mystic and ascetic, usually a member of a dervish religious order.
- A person who dedicates his life to the way of Allah
- A person who belongs to one of the various mystical and ascetic Muslim orders, such as the Sufis. A whirling dervish meditates by whirling or spinning in an ecstatic dance.
