{"id":17046,"date":"2012-08-20T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T05:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/dervishes-of-qajar-era\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T05:22:04","slug":"dervishes-of-qajar-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/en\/dervishes-of-qajar-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Dervishes of Qajar Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Antoin Sevruguin<\/h4>\n

Photographs of Iranian dervishes by Antoin Sevruguin<\/a> are mostly taken around 1900 to 1905.<\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervishes,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov<\/h4>\n

Photographs of the Russian photographer, Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov<\/a>, are mostly taken during the early 1870s during his trip to Iran.<\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervishes,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervishes,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a>

Dervish, Photographer: Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, around 1870s<\/p><\/div>\n

Post cards<\/h4>\n

\"Dervishes,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervishes,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervishes,<\/a><\/p>\n

Postcard from the collection of ARYA Philatelic<\/a><\/div>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

Postcard from the collection of ARYA Philatelic<\/a><\/div>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

Postcard from the collection of ARYA Philatelic<\/a><\/div>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dervish,<\/a><\/p>\n

Other pictures<\/h4>\n
\"Dervishes,<\/a>

Dervishes, Mollahs and Seyyeds, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915, Library of Congress<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dervishes,<\/a>

Dervishes, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915, Library of Congress<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Portrait<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jewish<\/a>

Jewish dervishes Agha-Jaan Darvish and his brother, patriarchs of the Darvish family. Tehran, Iran, c.1922. (Image source: Esther’s Children<\/a>\"\", edited by Houman Sarshar.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dervishes were a common subject for foreign photographers of the late Qajar period. 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