Search results for "Dervish" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • of Tabriz. It was his encounter with the dervish Shams in the late fall of ... Along with anticipation and anguish, the dance of the whirling dervish ...
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  • The Skoptsy ( скопцы , also transliterated as Skoptzy, Skoptzi, Skoptsi, Scoptsy) were a secret sect of Christianity in imperial Russia ...
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  • Janissaries also learned to follow the dictates of the dervish saint Hajji Bektash Wali, disciples of whom had blessed the first troops. Bektashi ...
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  • * the ascetic (زاهد zâhid)–the dervish (درويش derviş) As the opposition of "the ascetic" and "the dervish ...
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  • alone in the mountains of Kurdistan dressed like a dervish and using the name Darvish Muhammad-i-Irani. At one point someone noticed his remarkable penmanship ...
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  • and anguish, the dance of the whirling dervish symbolizes the exhilaration that comes from the search for divine love (El-Zein, 2000; Tell, 2002 ...
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  • Persian Zoroastrian who had been a wandering Sufi dervish before settling in Pune, and Sheriar's young wife, Shireen, who called him her "most ...
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  • of the body and the soul. It tells the story of a dervish losing and regaining his body's health physically because of its struggle with a disease ...
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  • Jihad ( جهاد ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to strive, or “struggle” in ways related to Islam, both for ...
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  • el-Nil Mosque (8625532075).jpg|thumb|400px|A Sufi dervish drums up the Friday afternoon crowd at the Hamed el-Nil Mosque and Tomb in Omdurman, Sudan]] ...
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  • The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...
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  • whirling as a form of dhikr (remembrance of Allah). Dervish is a common term for an initiate of the Sufi Path. The Mevlevi Order is a Sufi group founded ...
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  • primary schools, rich charitable foundations, and dervish religious orders. However, by 1968 Muslims were deemed a distinct nation, by 1971 Muslims formed ...
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