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Mahdi
Mahdi Mah"di, n. [Ar., guide, leader.] Among Mohammedans, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Mohammedans, believe that he is yet to appear. Note: The title has been taken by several persons in countries where Mohammedanism prevails, -- notably by Mohammad Ahmed, who overran the Egyptian Sudan, and in 1885 captured Khartum, his soldiers killing General Gordon, an Englishman, who was then the Egyptian governor of the region.

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- Press. ISBN 0520057724. Furnish, Timothy R. (2005). Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Jihad and Osama Bin Laden. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 0275983838. Goldziher...
- imam al Mahdi℗ and the 12 Mahdis℗. The Yamani calls to imam al Mahdi℗. Therefore, the Yamani must be the First of the Mahdis because the 11 Mahdis after...
- him to be the Qa'im of the Family of Mohammed and the second of twelve Mahdis appointed in the will of the Prophet Mohammed. Abdullah Hashem was born...
- Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن المهدي, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī) is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of...
- appearance of the Mahdi are the collection of events, according to Islamic eschatology, that will occur before the arrival of the Mahdi, The signs differ...
- claimant Mahdi can wield great temporal, as well as spiritual, power: claimant Mahdis have founded states (e.g. the late 19th-century Mahdiyah in Sudan), as well...
- The Mahdi Army (Arabic: جيش المهدي, romanized: Jaysh al-Mahdi) was an Iraqi Shia militia created by Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008...
- The Mahdi is a 1981 thriller novel by Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell. The book was published in 1981 by Macmillan in the UK then in January...
- Ali Mahdi Muhammad (Somali: Cali Mahdi Maxamed, Arabic: علي مهدي محمد) (1 January 1939 – 10 March 2021) was a Somali entrepreneur and politician. He served...
- Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt,...