Costume of a Dervise or Dervish man of Syria. He wears robes of aba or felt, a scimitar on his girdle and has his hair in a tuft on his head to be tied by a cord to the ceiling. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Octavian Dalvimart from William Alexander’s translation of Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Thomas M’Lean, London, 1814.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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