dervish

noun4

1. •
   An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.
2. •
   (historical) One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
3. •
   (historical) A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.
4. •
   Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.

   • The Hejaz war, meanwhile, would be one of dervishes against regular troops. — 1926

noun2

1. •
   A member of a Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity of mendicant friars.
2. •
   (historical) A citizen or inhabitant of the Taleh-based Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), the polity territorially coterminous with modern Waqooyi Bari.