Dervish Collection

Battle of Abu Klea, 17 January 1885. Oil on canvas signed and dated lower left: W B Wollen 1896, by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936), 1896

Ancient Persian Music
A Dervish of Ancient Persia in long green robe with fur trimming; he wears an ornate hat and plays a woodwind instrument

Detail from Haji Bektash Veli Museum in Nevsehir Turkey
Decorative detail from the tomb of Haji Bektash Veli in Nevsehir Turkey. Date: 2012

Wandering Uzbek Dervishes from Samarkand. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Bukhara Dervish from Uzbekistan. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Whirling dervishes, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

Persian Dervish - Paris Exhibition
Persian Dervish at the Paris Exposition in 1900. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Two Whirling Dervishes with musicians. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273) - mystic and poet

Konya - Mosque & Turbe (burial building) of Rumi. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273) - mystic and poet

Thessaloniki - Dervishes, Lemonade Seller and foreign troops Date: circa 1916

Iranian Wandering Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Whirling Dervishes, Victorian period

Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order. The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin

The looting of Dervish dead, Omdurman
Photograph of the looting of Dervish dead, Omdurman. Photograph from an album associated with the 2nd Sudan War (1896-1899). Date: 1898

A portrait of the American dancer Ted Shawn in his Dervish dance, 1930 Date: 1930

Final scene of a Dervish dance, Rifai order. Penitents in ecstasy grasp red-hot scimitars and have their wounds treated by the sheikh. Followers of Shaikh Ahmed er-Rifai

Tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Eyup Sultan Mosque
Turbe or tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari in the Eyup Sultan Mosque, Istanbul. The tomb is open day and night and lit with two large torches and a flagpole wrapped in green cloth

Dance of the whirling Dervishes of Mawlawi Tawagozi. Sufi Dervishes in tall hats dance in a circle to accompaniment by musicians on drums, psaltery and sistrum. Ballo dei Dervisch Mewlewi

Two Sufi Dervish devotees at prayer
Two Dervish penitents performing prayer rituals in a Dervish lodge. One with his hair tied to the ceiling with a cord, and another with band around hands and knees holding prayer beads

Muslim men and women, Dervish, astrologer, and Bedouin girl
Muslim man on the Hajji to Mecca 1, Muslim woman 2, Muslim man in travel clothes 3, ordinary Muslim 4, Dervish saint 5, astrologer or Tagessa 6, muleteer 7, barber or Kagiem 8

Islamic dervish or holy man, Cairo, Egypt
Islamic dervish or holy man, sitting in the courtyard of a mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1922

Dervish of Sudan, East Central Africa
A young dervish of the Sudan area (then part of the British Empire), East Central Africa. Date: 1922

Turkish Sultana and Howling Dervish. 1840

Dervish man from Persia (Iran) wearing onion-shaped hat.. Handcolored woodcut from Auguste Wahlens Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World, Brussels, 1845

Interior of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilanis tomb, Baghdad, Iraq
The interior (entrance) of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilanis tomb, in his madrasa in Babul-Sheikh, Rusafa on the east bank of the Tigris in Baghdad, Iraq Date: circa 1930s

Sudanese kettle drum, 1898 (c). Reputedly taken form Dervish forces at the Battle of Omdurman, 2nd Sudan War (1896-1899) 1898

Persian Dervishes. Darwesh or Dervish, as it is known in European languages, refers to members of Sufi Muslim ascetic religious Tariqahs - tariket

Bektashi Dervish at Tangiers, Morocco. Founder of the Bektashi order was Hajji Bektash Wali (1209 - 1271) - is today a renowned figure in the history and culture of both Ottoman Empire

Bektashi Symbol in Haji Bektashi Veli Museum
A palihenk (large tash teslim - literally the stone of surrender or abandonment - to be worn on the belt) probably belonging to a Dede Baba / chief sheikh in Haji Bektash Veli Tomb Museum in Nevsehir

Provincial Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Turkish Dervish
A Turkish Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Pipe-smoking Syrian Dervish with fantastic hairstyle. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Dervish monastery and Al-Salihiyah in Damascus, Syria
Dervish monastery and the Al-Salihiyah neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, in the distance at the foot of Mount Qasioun. Date: circa 1918

Damascus, Syria - Entrance to the House of Saint Ananias
Entrance to the House of Saint Ananias (also called Chapel of Saint Ananias) - an ancient underground structure in Damascus, Syria, alleged to be the remains of the home of Ananias of Damascus

Damascus, Syria - Midan Bazar. Date: circa 1909

Kulah Khud, Persian style helmet, 1898 (c). Circular, iron helmet with dome, knob finial and riveted, reinforcing ring; traces of gilt decoration; brass sliding nasal with geometrical decoration;

Jibbah, Dervish, 1898. Associated with the Battle of Omdurman, 2nd Sudan War, (1896-1899). This jibbah is thought to be ceremonial; its thin material

Sudanese hippopotamus hide daraga or shield, 1885 (c). Reputedly taken at Maj Gen Sir J McNeills zariba, Tofrek, 22 Mar 1885, 1st Sudan War (1884-1885)

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - A wandering Dervish Date: 1907

Mevlana Museum. Turkey
Mevlana Museum at the Mevlana Monastery, of the dervishes monks. Exterior. Konya. Turkey

Persian Dervish in Chechnya. Date: circa 1905

Wandering Dervish and a Derivish who gives out water
Constantinople - Wandering Dervish and a Derivish who gives out free water. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Seated Iranian Dervish Group
Seated group of Iranian (Persian) Dervishes. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Kalendar Dervish & Dervish
Kalendar Dervishes & Dervish. A Kalendar Dervish is of the Kalendari, who are a loosely knit order of wandering Dervishes who stretch throughout the Middle East

Persian Dervish with sword and begging bowl. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Sufi Sheikh - Turkish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

11th Sudanese Battalion
Battle of Omdurman; the 11th Soudanese in the trenches awaiting the Dervish attack Date: 2nd September 1898

Damascus, Syria - Dervish Mosque on Barada River and the remains of a Roman Archway. Date: 1902

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