Dervishes were a common subject for foreign photographers of the late Qajar period. These photographs helped to create and fed the stereotypes of exotic Easterners, but nevertheless they are useful historical records of the period.
Antoin Sevruguin
Photographs of Iranian dervishes by Antoin Sevruguin are mostly taken around 1900 to 1905.
Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov
Photographs of the Russian photographer, Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, are mostly taken during the early 1870s during his trip to Iran.
Dervish, Photographer: Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, around 1870s
Post cards
Other pictures
Dervishes, Mollahs and Seyyeds, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915, Library of Congress
Dervishes, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915, Library of Congress
Jewish dervishes Agha-Jaan Darvish and his brother, patriarchs of the Darvish family. Tehran, Iran, c.1922. (Image source: Esther’s Children
, edited by Houman Sarshar.)
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