The large flap of the headdress was in imitation of the sleeve of Hajji Bektash, founder of the Bektashi dervishes, who laid his hand on early Janissaries to give his blessing.

If a dervish should become too enraptured, another Sufi, who is in charge of the orderly performance, will gently touch his frock in order to curb his movement, The dance of the dervishes is one of the most impressive features of the mystical life in Islam, and the music accompanying it is of exquisite beauty, beginning with the great hymn in honor of the Prophet ( na't-i sharif, written by Jalaluddin himself ) and ending with short, enthusiastic songs, some things sung in Turkish.

It can also apply to those dancers who master a rare or largely lost art form, including whirling dervishes, shaman dancers and religious dancers.

Members of Sufi orders are commonly called dervishes, from the Persian daraawish ( singular darwish, " one who gave up worldly concerns to dedicate himself to the service of God and community ").

He used to distribute the revenue of his real estate to dervishes and people who come to dervish convent.

Shortly afterwards, the Kartid leader welcomed Shi ' i dervishes fleeing from the Sarbadar ruler ' Ali-yi Mu ' ayyad, who had killed their leader during the aborted campaign.

The Sabzavaris, however, were divided ; among their number were moderate Shi ' is who were often at odds with the dervishes, adherents of a mystic ideology of Sunni Islam.

He describes the city as a big, nice, with many mosques, twelve minarets, tekkes of dervishes, inns, hammams, schools and many beautiful houses and residences of numerous provincial administration.

Hearing this, Selim I went down there himself only to see hundreds of silent dervishes gathered around Shaykh Sunbul dressed with his khirqa.

A rose of green and white cloth, with a six-pointed star in the middle, is traditionally worn in the cap of Qadiri dervishes.

While many of the Sarbadar leaders were secular, the dervishes also had their turns in power, and on occasion they ruled the state in condominium with each other ; such partnerships, however, tended to fall apart quickly.

While on the march, ' Ali's men picked a quarrel with the dervishes ; Darvish ' Aziz and many of his followers were killed trying to escape.

Kafi music is devotional music, normally associated with the Sufi orders or Tariqah of Islam in South Asia, and was sung by dervishes or fakirs ( Islamic mendicants ), solo or in groups, as an offering to their murshid, spiritual guide.

Bloch also associates Prinn with Egypt, writing that " there are legends among the Libyan dervishes concerning the old seer's deeds in Alexandria.

That same year, he published his Travels in Central Asia, based on the few, furtive notes he was able to make while traveling with the dervishes.

The devotee returned to Mian Mir with the rupee saying: " Master, none of the dervishes will accept the rupee.

Bektashi tekkes were closed and their dervishes were exiled.

Janissaries were fond of the dervishes of the Bektashi Order, since they regarded Haji Bektash as their convent's chief.

*" Astronomical whirling dervishes hide their age well ".

Branches of the Halveti-Jerrahi conduct gatherings where the dervishes perform Sufi remembrance ceremonies ( dhikr ), practice sufi music, serve dinner, pray together and listen to the discourses ( sohbets ) of their Sufi guides.

Hasan recognized that the entire Sarbadar state was in jeopardy: the Sabzavari dervishes might declare their support for the theocratic state at any time.

Traditionally dervishes in Sindh used instruments like Yaktaro, a one-stringed plucked instrument, and wooden clappers, chappars, though many contemporary singers have chosen their own variations

The whirling dervishes from the 13th century wore hats similar to the hennins, and the Ottoman Janissaries wore similar headgear to show their veneration for Hadji Bektash, founder of a Sufi order.

The two rulers each gained bases of support ; the former had his family and the gentry, while the latter had the dervishes, the aristocracy, and the trade guilds.

Like the Sarbadars, conflict soon erupted in this state between the secular rulers and the dervishes ; the latter eventually won.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

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As Loomis remarks, `` In the internal pattern the chief reason for interacting is to communicate liking, friendship, and love among those who stand in supporting relations to one another and corresponding negative sentiments to those who stand in antagonistic relations ''.

Mrs. Molvar, who kept reiterating her request that they `` please take a stand '', said, `` We must have faith in somebody -- on the local level, and it wouldn't be possible for everyone to rush to a school to get their children ''.

I discern no limits to a faith vested in God and Christ, who is the sum of all wisdom and knowledge, and daring to trust Him even though called to stand alone before the world.

`` Are you referring, sir '', asked Helva politely, `` to the Dark Age discussions of the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin ''??

When talking about those who have made " shipwreck " of their faith ( 1 Tim 1: 19 ), Wesley claims that " not one, or a hundred only, but I am persuaded, several thousands ... innumerable are the instances ... of those who had fallen but now stand upright.

Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.

They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

And guilty defendants who are in denial should be empowered to use these pleas instead of being forced to stand trial.

An angel appears to Daniel and explains that the demonic " prince of Persia " is in opposition, but that Michael " the great prince of Israel " will save them, as the only one who will " stand up.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a former vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabançon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

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And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, " Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?

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