Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Question - 327




What or who is/are shown in these pictures (Question: by Ramji)

Answer: I was looking for 'Dervish'. The top shows the famous Whirling Dervishes of Turkey.

Answered by: Karthik, Mohan, Vetti, Raghu, Mekie, niceTry, Ramanand, Keshav, Paddy, Manix, Sinndhuja, Trevor, Srivats, Iam and Jaggi.

16 comments:

Karthik said...

Whirling Dervishes and a more sober turkish dervish

Mohan Phadnis said...

Turkish Dervishes... The first picture is of whirling Dervishes from Turkey.

Vetti said...

Turkish Sufis

Raghu said...

whirling dervish

mekie said...

The whirling dervishes

nice try said...

dervish

Ameya said...

khwaja moinuddn khisti

J Ramanand said...

(whirling) dervishes.

keshav said...

followers of rumi: the whorling dervishes.
aliter:
the guys who made an appearance in 'jodha akbar' and the mullah who gives a.r rahman the inputs for out of this world sufi tunes!

Anonymous said...

Whirling Dervishes

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevlevi_Order

whirling dervishes.

- Sinndhuja Ramaprasad

Trevor Burnham said...

Those are the whirling dervishes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirling_Dervishes

Srivats said...

Whirling Dervish

Riskit said...

Sufi dancers/poets in trance.

Iam said...

Whirling Dervishes / Mevlevi / Turkish Sufis (Followers of Rumi)

Jaggi said...

Whirling Dervishes ("Mevlevi") of Turkey