title: Dervish (disambiguation)
text: # Dervish (disambiguation)
  
  A dervish is a Sufi Muslim ascetic.
  
  Dervish or darvish may also refer to:
  
  ## Movements
  
  * Dervish movement (Somali), the polity of Diiriye Guure
  * Sudanese Dervish or mahdists
  
  ## Music
  
  * Dervish (band), an Irish folk band
  * Sufi whirling, a type of dance
     * Whirling Dervishes
  
  ## People
  
  * Dervish Ali Astrakhani (died 1558), Khan of the Astrakhan Khanate
  * Dervish Bejah (1862–1957), Australian camel driver
  * Dervish Cara, Albanian revolutionary leader
  * Dervish Grady, a character in the Demonata series by Darren Shan
  * Dervish Hima (1872–1928), Albanian politician
  * Kamal Derwish (1973–2002), American citizen killed by the CIA
  * Yu Darvish (born 1986), Japanese baseball player
  
  ## Video games
  
  * An early name in development for The Arbiter in the Halo video game series
  * A profession in Guild Wars Nightfall
  * A type of cat in the Postal 2, expansion Apocalypse Weekend
  * A car in the racing game Death Rally
  * A heavy fighter aircraft in PlanetSide 2
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Dervish (rocket), an American air-launched rocket of the 1950s
  * Dervish Convoy, the first of the Allied Arctic convoys of World War II
  