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Dervishes

Dervish, Photographer: Antoin Sevruguin, around 1901

Dervishes of Qajar Era

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.

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