Dervish (disambiguation)
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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
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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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