dervishes
Sufi ascetics whirling
Dervishes is the plural of dervish, a member of a Muslim religious order known for ascetic practices and ecstatic rituals.
The whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order spin in meditative dance as a form of worship.
Figuratively, dervish describes frenzied activity: She spun like a dervish trying to get dinner ready.
Sufi spiritual brotherhood
Revolving around an axis
- rotationTurning on an axis
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- robeLong loose outer garment
skirt · axis · meditation · Rumi · music · ritual · turning · ecstasy
Overwhelming intense delight
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- gnosisExperiential sacred understanding
- unionJoining into one
divine love · contemplation · vision · annihilation · illumination · spiritual journey · esoteric · ineffable
Formal surrender of claim
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- povertySevere lack of resources
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
mendicant · abstinence · discipline · penance · celibacy · simplicity · detachment · self-denial
tariqa
Sufi spiritual brotherhood
spinning
Revolving around an axis
- rotationTurning on an axis
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
robe · skirt · axis · meditation · Rumi · music · ritual · turning · ecstasy · sacred dance
ecstasy
Overwhelming intense delight
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- gnosisExperiential sacred understanding
union · divine love · contemplation · vision · annihilation · illumination · spiritual journey · esoteric · ineffable · sacred
renunciation
Formal surrender of claim
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- povertySevere lack of resources
wandering · mendicant · abstinence · discipline · penance · celibacy · simplicity · detachment · self-denial · recluse
- Turkic folklorejinn, peri, evil eye, grey wolf, trickster tales
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- spinnersspinning top, tops, top, gyroscopes, fidget spinner
- asceticsascetic, ascetics, hermit, hermits, recluse
- holy peoplesaint, saints, prophet, holy men, martyr
- Sufismtariqa, fana, sufi, Sufism, silsila
dervishescontemplatives
Those practicing sustained reflection
Trappists · hermits · cenobites · meditators · cloistered nuns
dervisheslegalists
Strict adherents to codes
scholastics · theologians · doctrinaires · fundamentalists · literalists
dervishesmaterialists
Prioritizers of physical possessions
sybarites · plutocrats · tycoons · hedonists · sensualists
- Whirling DervishSpinning Sufi practitioner
- Whirling DervishesSufi practitioners who spin