Dervish synonyms

dûr'vĭsh

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mussulman
(Archaic) Muslim
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shia
The Shiites.
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motazilite
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shiite
Of or relating to the Shiites or their branch of Islam.
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moslem
(Dated) Alternative spelling of Muslim.
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sufi
A Muslim following the teachings and traditions of an ancient form of Islamic mysticism
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sunnite
A member of one of the two great sects of Muslims: Sunnites approve the historical order of the first four caliphs as the rightful line of succession to Muhammad and accept the Sunna as an authoritative supplement to the Koran
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wahabi
Alternative spelling of Wahhabi.
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abdal
A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
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muezzin
The crier who calls the faithful to prayer five times a day.
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murshid
An Islamic teacher, especially in Sufism.
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qadi
(Islam, law) A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. [from 16th c.]
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dervishes (related)
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fakir (related)
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whirling (related)
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  • From Gallabat a dervish raiding party penetrated to Gondar, which they looted.

  • The mainland part of the town is surrounded by a high coral wall, built in 1884 to resist dervish attacks.

  • In the Sinan Tekke or Dervish monastery the ceremonies of the howling and dancing Dervishes may be witnessed.

  • There are over 30 mosques in the town, a dervish monastery, and numerous theological colleges (medresses), and the Moslem inhabitants have a reputation for bigotry.

  • On the 7th of August 1897 Colonel Hunter surprised and annihilated a weak Dervish garrison at Abu Hamed, to which place, by the 31st of October 1897, a railway had been laid across the Nubian desert from Wadi Haifa, a distance of 230 m., the record construction of 5300 yds surveyed, embanked and laid in one day having been attained.

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