1. Some of them were whirling round like dervishes.

2. In the end, stories move like whirling dervishes, drawing circles beyond circles.

3. Sufism is a spiritual practice associated with the whirling dervishes and the poet Rumi.

4. The Turks say... that, upon the smoke, dervishes draw ecstasy, soldiers courage, and others...

5. Even among bands of Sufi mystics, such as the dervishes, Celibacy was exceptional (see Sufism)

6. [ ] Beet (Dervishes) (The Beetiest) Smasher League Catchers Pick One [ ] Mike Piazza (Cells) (.270/.310/.497, 8 HRs -0.8 WAR) First Basemen Pick One [ ] Jimmie Foxx (Superstars) (.276/.364/.464, 9 HRs 1.2 WAR) Second Basemen Pick One [ ] Rogers Hornsby (Comancheros) (.360/.400/.556, 5 HRs 1.7 WAR) Third Basemen Pick One

7. Atatürk imposed a dizzying array of changes , including European laws , the Latin alphabet , the Gregorian calendar , personal last names , hats instead of fezzes , monogamy , Sunday as the day of rest , a ban on dervishes , the legal right to drink alcohol , and Turkish as a liturgical language .