Definition of Mahdists. Meaning of Mahdists. Synonyms of Mahdists

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Definition of Mahdists

Mahdist
Mahdism Mah"dism, n. Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah"dist, n. Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed. --E. N. Bennett.

Meaning of Mahdists from wikipedia

- the Mahdist government was also fuelled by many Mahdists behaving arrogantly and abusive towards the locals. Several states bordering the Mahdist State...
- in 1898 and the Mahdist state collapsed following defeat at the battle of Omdurman. The last organised resistance from the Mahdists ended the next year...
- Look up Mahdist or Mahdism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mahdist or Mahdism may refer to: Mahdist (follower), in the context of the Mahdi, the prophesied...
- night of 25–26 January an estimated 50,000 Mahdists attacked the city wall just before midnight. The Mahdists took advantage of the seasonally low level...
- maneuver by the Mahdists, Chaltin's forces stormed the heights and dislodged the defenders. The Congolese companies pursued the retreating Mahdists back towards...
- After Omdurman, the defeated Mahdist forces, still 25,000 strong, moved southward from Khartoum to Kordofan. The Mahdists still controlled the territory...
- thousands of Islamic warriors known to the Europeans as Dervishes and to the Mahdists as the Ansār. At El Obeid on 3 November 1883, an Egyptian force under General...
- British considered important as a po****r leader of the Mahdists, became a leader of the neo-Mahdist movement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Some Sudanese considered...
- revolts in Egyptian Sudan, this resulted in the formation of Mahdist State. In 1889 the Mahdists were defeated by the British, who formed Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
- and ten wounded, while the Mahdists suffered around one-hundred killed and wounded. Author Sean McLachlan blames the Mahdists' "inferior weaponry and fire...