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"This model owns dervish as a situated Sufi religious identity or role associated with a person, including local recognition, affiliation, discipline and responsibilities; it does not treat the term as a universal occupation or synonym for whirling performer.", "in_scope": [ "Self-identification and community attribution of the designation dervish", "Relationships with Sufi teachers, communities and orders where applicable", "Religious disciplines and locally understood commitments", "Participation, responsibilities and recognition within a community", "Historical, linguistic and regional meanings that affect interpretation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The person's complete biography and unrelated identities", "Sufism as a whole and comprehensive Islamic theology", "The governance and assets of a Sufi order or religious institution", "Whirling, music and other ritual or performance forms as independent practices", "Buildings, clothing and ritual objects as independently modelled things" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish whether dervish denotes a religious identity in the recorded context or is a metaphor, stage designation or externally imposed label.", "Do not infer dervish identity from whirling, costume or musical participation alone; seek contextual identification and recognition.", "Distinguish recognition as a dervish from authority to initiate, teach or lead others; record evidence for each separately.", "Distinguish the dervish's affiliation from the order or community itself, and the religious role from any paid position.", "Treat terms such as faqir or Sufi as potentially overlapping designations whose equivalence must be established for the particular context." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Designation and attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded local term; self-designated, community-designated, externally designated, disputed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whose interpretation supports the classification." }, { "name": "Cultural and historical context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked locality, language, community and historical period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one community's meaning of dervish from becoming a universal criterion." }, { "name": "Religious affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named order or community; reported unaffiliated; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Locates relevant expectations without assuming formal order membership is always required." }, { "name": "Teacher relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named teacher or guide, relationship description and supporting attribution", "why_it_matters": "Records guidance separately from institutional membership and teaching authority." }, { "name": "Participation status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Locally named status, effective period and attribution; unknown where unverified", "why_it_matters": "Allows participation to change without imposing a universal 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religious standing separate from employment and economic circumstances." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a use of dervish by its stated religious, historical, performative or figurative context.", "Connect an attributed identity to its community, teacher and supporting evidence.", "Compare reported commitments with the expectations of the relevant tradition.", "Determine whether evidence supports a specific teaching, leadership or representative function.", "Identify appropriate contact and participation procedures for a named community or gathering.", "Flag contested designations, uncertain affiliations and unsupported assumptions for review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "designation-and-boundaries", "name": "Designation and boundaries", "description": "Establishes the sense of dervish being modelled and the grounds for applying it.", "rationale": "The term cannot reliably classify a person without knowing who used it and what they meant.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-meaning", "name": "Local meaning", "description": "Records the designation in its linguistic and religious setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-of-dervish", "name": "Meaning of dervish", "description": "Record the local explanation of the term without substituting a generic occupational definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does dervish mean in this language, community and period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-of-dervish-q01" }, { "text": "Which local distinctions separate dervish from Sufi, faqir, religious teacher or other adjacent designations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-of-dervish-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grounds-for-identification", "name": "Grounds for identification", "description": "Separates identity claims from visual inference and outsider categorisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-religious-identity", "name": "Attributed religious identity", "description": "Record who identifies the person as a dervish and whether that attribution is accepted or contested.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the designation come from the person, their community or an external observer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-religious-identity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a religious designation from a stage role, metaphor or inference based on appearance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-religious-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "affiliation-and-guidance", "name": "Affiliation and guidance", "description": "Situates the dervish within relationships of belonging and spiritual guidance.", "rationale": "Community affiliation and teacher relationships help interpret commitments but must not be presumed or conflated.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-belonging", "name": "Community belonging", "description": "Records order or community affiliation using locally meaningful categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-affiliation", "name": "Basis of affiliation", "description": "Distinguish attendance, association and recognised membership wherever the community makes those distinctions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which order or community, if any, recognises this affiliation, and how is it described?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-affiliation-q01" }, { "text": "Does this context require formal affiliation for the designation dervish, or recognise other forms of belonging?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-of-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "guidance-and-admission", "name": "Guidance and admission", "description": "Records teacher relationships and any locally relevant admission process.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognised-guidance-relationship", "name": "Recognised guidance relationship", "description": "Document guidance and admission claims without assuming that every tradition uses the same initiation procedure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is identified as the person's teacher or guide, and who confirms that relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognised-guidance-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "What admission or initiation process, if any, establishes the person's recognised standing here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognised-guidance-relationship-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "discipline-and-ritual", "name": "Discipline and ritual", "description": "Records religious commitments and participation in specific practices.", "rationale": "A usable model must distinguish lived discipline from stereotypes that reduce dervishes to poverty or whirling.", "layers": [ { "id": "religious-commitments", "name": "Religious commitments", "description": "Captures the expectations that participants themselves understand as part of the role.", "findings": [ { "id": "locally-defined-discipline", "name": "Locally defined discipline", "description": "Record prescribed and voluntary disciplines, including how any language of poverty or renunciation is understood.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which devotional, ethical or service 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describe the religious, public or staged character of this particular gathering?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "practice-and-participant-role-q02" }, { "text": "What conditions govern observing, joining or recording this practice?", "kind": "action", "id": "practice-and-participant-role-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "standing-and-responsibilities", "name": "Standing and responsibilities", "description": "Separates participation, entrusted responsibilities and authority.", "rationale": "The designation alone cannot establish who may teach, lead a ceremony or speak for a community.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognised-functions", "name": "Recognised functions", "description": "Records responsibilities and the grounds on which they are entrusted.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-religious-authority", "name": "Limits of religious authority", "description": "Identify specific permissions and their scope rather than deriving authority from the title dervish.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which teaching, ritual leadership, initiation or representative functions is this person recognised as authorised to perform?", "kind": "action", "id": "limits-of-religious-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Who granted or recognises each permission, and what limits or disputes apply?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "limits-of-religious-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-and-livelihood", "name": "Service and livelihood", "description": "Distinguishes religious obligations from work arrangements and material support.", "findings": [ { "id": "religious-service-arrangement", "name": "Religious service arrangement", "description": "Record community service and livelihood relationships without assuming that dervish is a paid occupation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What service responsibilities accompany this person's participation, and to whom are they accountable?", "kind": "definition", "id": "religious-service-arrangement-q01" }, { "text": "Which activities, if any, involve employment, payment 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"Qualifications, initiation requirements and historical legal restrictions require tradition-specific and jurisdiction-specific checking." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of dervish this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Mevlevi dervish", "Bektashi dervish", "Rifa'i dervish", "Qalandar dervish" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of dervish this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Pursuing spiritual training under a Sufi teacher.", 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a dervish sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a dervish from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a dervish is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a dervish is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a dervish moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a dervish passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a dervish between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a dervish, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a dervish is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a dervish.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a dervish and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a dervish, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a dervish and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a dervish sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as dervish.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does dervish require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses dervish, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What dervish actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define dervish, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as dervish, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a dervish came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a dervish and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a dervish is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a dervish, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a dervish, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a dervish is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }