“Western visual representations of Dervishes from the 14th century to early 20th” – Thierry ZARCONE

Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 6 (March 2013), pp. 43–58 [PDF] In this paper, I would like to investigate the way the Europeans have drawn and painted, and then photographed the “dervish,” that is, the most common word to designate the Muslim mystic or Sufi in the Ottoman Empire. In Europe, the figure of…