A dervish is a Sufi Muslim ascetic.
Dervish or darvish may also refer to:
Polities
Dervish movement (Somali), the polity centered in modern Waqooyi Bari
Music
Dervish (band), an Irish folk band Sufi whirling, a type of dance
People
Mevlevi Order, known as whirling dervishes Dervish Ali Astrakhani (died 1558), Khan of the Astrakhan Khanate Dervish Bejah (1862–1957), Australian camel driver Dervish Cara, Albanian revolutionary leader Dervish Grady, a character in the Demonata series by Darren Shan Dervish Hima (1872–1928), Albanian politician Kamal Derwish (1973–2002), American citizen killed by the CIA Yu Darvish (born 1986), Japanese baseball player
Video games
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 heavy fighter aircraft in PlanetSide 2 A BattleMech in the BattleTech universe
Other uses
Dervish (rocket), an American air-launched rocket of the 1950s Dervish Convoy, the first of the Allied Arctic convoys of World War II
See also
Derviş, a Turkish surname meaning Dervish
Darwish Dervish Mehmed Pasha (disambiguation) Dervish Pasha (disambiguation)