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Mahdi

noun

(Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion.

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"Mahdi" Quotes from Famous Books

... nodded. It was a year since he had seen the Emirs stretched close and still round the reddened sheepskin where lay El Mahdi, the Prophet of God. Now there remained no trace of their dominion except the old steamer, once part of a Dervish flotilla, which was his house and office. She sidled into the shore, lowered a plank, and the Governor followed ...

— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling

... will be established Executive branch: president, two vice presidents, prime minister, Council of Ministers (cabinet) Legislative branch: unicameral People's Assembly (Golaha Shacbiga); non-functioning Judicial branch: Supreme Court (non-functioning) Leaders: Chief of State: Interim President ALI MAHDI Mohamed ...

— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... prophecy of Napoleon, under the name of Kebir Bonaberdis; a word which in our lingo means, "The Sultan fires a shot," and they feared him like the devil. So the Grand Turk, Asia, and Africa have recourse to magic, and they send a demon against us, named the Mahdi, who it was thought had come down from heaven on a white charger which, like its master was bullet-proof, and the pair of them lived on the air of that part of the world. There are people who have seen them, but for my part I cannot give you any certain informations about them. They were the ...

— The Napoleon of the People • Honore de Balzac

... was commenced soon after 1842 by a sort of Chinese Mahdi—a fanatical village schoolmaster—had attained such dimensions that it had overrun and desolated a great portion of Southern China, and threatened to drive the foreigners into the sea. Nanking, with its porcelain tower, had been taken, and was made the capital of ...

— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

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