Turkey/Ottoman Empire: 'Dance of the Dervishes'. Watercolour painting by Edward Dodwell (30 November 1767 - 13 May 1832), 1821. Edward Dodwell was an Irish painter, traveller and a writer on archaeology. Dodwell travelled from 1801 to 1806 in Greece (at the time a part of the Ottoman Empire), and spent the rest of his life for the most part in Italy, at Naples and Rome. A Dervish is someone treading a Sufi Muslim ascetic path or 'Tariqah', known (notionally) for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars in Christianity or Hindu/Buddhist/Jain sadhus.

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