Dervish

see also: Etymology of Dervish

The word dervish (Farsi: درويش, beggar ) is of origin Persian and appoints a beggar. By shift in meaning it is the member of some brotherhoods soufies practitioner or not the begging. The word passed to the Arab (دَرويش) and to the Turkish (derviş) where it designates only the members of certain religious brotherhoods.

The word Abdal indicates them in the Alévisme,

The dervish is initiated by a Master (Sheik or Murchid) and takes part in ritual of the brotherhood, which often consists of repeated invocations of the name of God (Dhikr), or in others practical hypnotic like the dance or the song until the mystical extase, the destruction (faded ').

The most known brotherhood is that of the Dancing dervishes in Turkey and Iran.

The poet rumi who is Iranian and who lived of 1207 to 1273 is known for his religious texts influenced by the literary styles dervishes it is a cantor (it makes praises) of the " love mystique" and is the founder about the soufis of mowlawi (the soufis of mowlawi are actually the ancestors closest and most direct to the current dancing dervishes)

See too

Fakir (Arab: فقير, poor ) Arab word which also appoints to him at the beginning a beggar.
Soufi (Arab: صوفيْ, woolly ) Arab word meaning woolly. The wool clothing is that of the poor and that of the prophets.
Marabout (Arab: مُرابِط, applied ) Arab word which nominates a person who endeavors to practice a life of holiness.
Pole (Persan Language): Persan word appointing the chief of a group of dervishes
Khaneghah (Persan Language): Persan word indicating a special mosque which is allotted partly to the dervishes and who is the place or they meet.

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