A Muslim friar, who has taken vows of poverty and austere life. Of these there are various orders, some of whom are known from their fantastic…

‘Properly an indigent person, but specially applied to a Mahommedan religious mendicant, and then loosely, and inaccurately, to Hindu devotees and…

One who turns or spins rapidly round; †one who wanders about (obsolete); a ‘whirling’ dervish.

An order of Sufi dervishes pledged to poverty and asceticism, and practising the repeated calling out of chants to attain religious ecstasy. Also: a…