Darwaysh

Master – Darwaysh binding the former to implicit obedience etc.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Al – Ahd wa al-Mísák” the troth pledged between the Muríd or apprentice-Darwaysh and the Shaykh or

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

My companions having received these small sums, became affectionate and eloquent in my praise: they asked me to make one of their number at meals for the future, overwhelmed me with questions, insisted upon a present of sweetmeats, detected in me a great man under a cloud, — perhaps my claims to being a Darwaysh assisted them to this discovery, — and declared that I should perforce be their guest at Meccah and Al-Madinah.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Then hearing that I was a Darwaysh and doctor — he must be an

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Darwaysh, and frequenting the places where Darwayshes congregate.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The boy Mohammed, who had long chafed at my pertinacious claim to Darwaysh-hood, resolved on this occasion to be grand.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

And why rage so furiously against the “disguise of a wandering Darwaysh?”

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Is the Darwaysh anything but an Oriental Freemason, and are Freemasons less Christians because they pray with Moslems and profess their belief in simple unitarianism?

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The Somal know none of the exaggerated and chivalrous ideas by which passion becomes refined affection amongst the Arab Bedouins and the sons of civilisation, nor did I ever hear of an African abandoning the spear and the sex to become a Darwaysh.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

I avoided answering his question about my native place, and after telling him that I had no longer name or nation, being a Darwaysh, I asked him, when he insisted upon my having been born somewhere, to guess for himself.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003