Word: dervish
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...Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown and skinny, with an evil face, round shoulders, a hawk nose, joined the rebellion, achieved a title "Emir of the Dervish of God." He beat General Baker at Tokar. He fought General Gordon at Khartum and Kitchener at Omdurman. Three times...
...that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...
...that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates the while about glory, salvation and sin--then we may safely and thankfully say that Harvard is lacking religious ardor. And--it is well to bear in mind that Harvard's freedom from religious narrowness and bigotry has been and is one of the many factors which make...
...pants. So there I stood, and the Boy Scout band passed, and on the drum there was labelled "Rotary Boy Scouts of Cambridge", and I wondered, if a boy scout does a good turn daily, what's the difference between a rotary boy scout and a whirling dervish. Hoping you are the same...
Every once in a while, at no regular interval, the world's philosophers-that is, its academic, its orthodox, not its whirling dervish, ivory tower or bucolic sawbuck philosophers-appoint a meeting place, and hold an International Congress of Philosophy. The last (fifth) Congress was in Naples in 1919. The one before that was in Paris, and indeed the Congress has never been held outside of Europe...