A dervish is a Sufi Muslim ascetic.

Dervish or darvish may also refer to:

Movements

  • Dervish movement (Somali), the polity of Diiriye Guure
  • Sudanese Dervish or mahdists

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)