6176508 Dancing Dervishes, c.1480 (opaque watercolour and gold on paper) by Bihzad (fl.1500) (attr. to); 29.9x18.9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Folio from a Divan (poems) of the Persian Hafiz (1325-90), painting attributed to present-day Afghanistan, Herat A ring of sufi dervishes (Islamic mystics) playing music to accompany another group of dervishes performing the celestial dance (sama??. These Islamic Mystics tread a Sufi Muslim ascetic path or Tariqah, known (notionally) for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars in Christianity or Hindu / Buddhist / Jain sadhus.).