Dervish

From a Persian compound meaning "door-seeker" (darwish), suggesting itinerant mendicancy. Technically correct usage generally leans toward restricting the term to individual Sufis not connected with specific orders, or those affiliated with organizations whose members tended to be less attached to stable institutional life...

--John Renard, The A to Z of Sufism (Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2009), 73.