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

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 beginning with dervish
• All pages beginning with darvish
• All pages with a title containing dervish
• All pages with a title containing darvish
• Darwish
• Dervish Mehmed Pasha (disambiguation)
• Dervish Pasha (disambiguation)