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Dictionary Results For "Mahdi" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Etymology

Arabic rightly guided one

Proper noun

Mahdi

  1. a leader in Shia eschatology who is assumed to appear, save the world & make peace worldwide.


sr:Mahdi

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
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