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"Sartian dervish" [Turkestanic Qalandars]
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On October 1, 1888, Viennese Asian traveler Josef Troll arrives at the busy Alt-Margelan, present-day Margilan in Uzbekistan, with his "myriad of Mazars (Holy Tombs), with his calendar khané, the accommodation break of the dervishes, which with their pointed, embroidered caps around which they allegedly have to serve eight years begging, walk around the choir singing at bazaar days and cheeky enough
A photograph from this period evokes the image of the wandering dervish, which heals alms with his begging bowl. On her is depicted a group of these world-renowned mystics who, according to her, do not care about social conventions. Some of them carry a begging bowl - they live off begging. Significantly, the Sufis in Europe are known as fakir and dervish, Arabic and Persian for “poor.” Poverty and lack of possessions are at the heart of their standard of living. They are pious ascetics who despise all worlds and reject existing conventions, rules and dogmas. Each of them has sought an inner meaning of the sacred scripture of Islam and follows Koranic verses, which can be read as an indication of an individual, immediate relationship of man with God. To experience God as a last reality is the goal of these individualists.
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Title: "Sartian dervish" [Turkestanic Qalandars]
Description:
On October 1, 1888, Viennese Asian traveler Josef Troll arrives at the busy Alt-Margelan, present-day Margilan in Uzbekistan, with his "myriad of Mazars (Holy Tombs), with his calendar khané, the accommodation break of the dervishes, which with their pointed, embroidered caps around which they allegedly have to serve eight years begging, walk around the choir singing at bazaar days and cheeky enough
A photograph from this period evokes the image of the wandering dervish, which heals alms with his begging bowl.
On her is depicted a group of these world-renowned mystics who, according to her, do not care about social conventions.
Some of them carry a begging bowl - they live off begging.
Significantly, the Sufis in Europe are known as fakir and dervish, Arabic and Persian for “poor.
” Poverty and lack of possessions are at the heart of their standard of living.
They are pious ascetics who despise all worlds and reject existing conventions, rules and dogmas.
Each of them has sought an inner meaning of the sacred scripture of Islam and follows Koranic verses, which can be read as an indication of an individual, immediate relationship of man with God.
To experience God as a last reality is the goal of these individualists.