Whirling dervish children practise as they wait to perform at the Blue Mosque Square, marking the 750th anniversary of the death of Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic.
Photograph: Erdem/Sahin/EPA
A Dervish is a member of a Muslim (specifically Sufi) religious order who has taken vows of poverty and austerity.
Dervishes first appeared in the 12th
century; they were noted for their wild or ecstatic rituals and were
known as dancing, whirling or howling dervishes according to the practice of their order.
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