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Definition of Mahdi in English: MahdinounPlural Mahdis ˈmɑːdiˈmɑdi 1(in popular Muslim belief) a spiritual and temporal leader who will rule before the end of the world and restore religion and justice. Example sentencesExamples - Men say that a certain religious Mullah has prophesied the immediate second coming of the Mahdi.
- Its name suggests that he sees the coming of the Muslim promised one, the Mahdi, as imminent.
- 1.1 A person claiming to be the Mahdi, notably Muhammad Ahmad of Dongola in Sudan (1843–85), whose revolutionary movement captured Khartoum and overthrew the Egyptian regime.
Example sentencesExamples - In 1881, a religious leader named Muhammad ibn Abdalla proclaimed himself the Mahdi, or the ‘expected one,’ and began a religious crusade to unify the tribes in western and central Sudan.
- He also declared his brother-in-law Mahdi [the messiah], a term most Saudis do not identify with their brand of conservative Islam.
- This is the first report I have seen of Muqtada being considered the Mahdi, and it is possible, though I suspect it is a minority view.
- There, a revolt led by a religious leader, Muhammad Ahmed, self-styled the Mahdi, had started in 1881.
- In 909 a leader claiming descent from Isma il proclaims himself the Mahdi and creates a state in North Africa.
- 1.2 (in Shiite belief) the twelfth imam, who is expected to return and triumph over injustice.
Example sentencesExamples - The Safavid state in Iran was founded in 1501 by Shiite tribes who believed that Shah Ismail was divine, and perhaps that he was the herald of the Shiite Mahdi or messiah.
Derivatives noun A note in the gallery says: ‘Mahdism remains a vital political force in contemporary Sudan’. Example sentencesExamples - Mahdism can be highly militant.
noun & adjective The relief forces arrived two days later and, realizing that the Mahdists had triumphed, turned back to Egypt. Example sentencesExamples - The Mahdists were defeated at Omdurman on 2 September 1898 and on 19 September Kitchener confronted Marchand at Fashoda, on the headwaters of the Nile.
- In July of the previous year, while the British were engaged in a war against the Mahdists in the Sudan, a French contingent, with the cooperation of the Belgian authorities in the Congo, took possession of Fashoda, on the Nile.
- In this battle the Anglo-Egyptian force commanded by Kitchener defeated the Mahdists and established British dominance in Sudan.
Origin From Arabic (al-)mahdī 'he who is guided in the right way', passive participle of hadā 'to guide'. Rhymes cadi, cardy, Guardi, Hardie, hardy, lardy, mardy, Saadi, samadhi, tardy, Yardie Definition of Mahdi in US English: Mahdinounˈmɑdiˈmädē 1(in popular Muslim belief) a spiritual and temporal leader who will rule before the end of the world and restore religion and justice. Example sentencesExamples - Its name suggests that he sees the coming of the Muslim promised one, the Mahdi, as imminent.
- Men say that a certain religious Mullah has prophesied the immediate second coming of the Mahdi.
- 1.1 A person claiming to be the Mahdi, notably Muhammad Ahmad of Dongola in Sudan (1843–85), whose revolutionary movement captured Khartoum and overthrew the Egyptian regime.
Example sentencesExamples - In 1881, a religious leader named Muhammad ibn Abdalla proclaimed himself the Mahdi, or the ‘expected one,’ and began a religious crusade to unify the tribes in western and central Sudan.
- There, a revolt led by a religious leader, Muhammad Ahmed, self-styled the Mahdi, had started in 1881.
- In 909 a leader claiming descent from Isma il proclaims himself the Mahdi and creates a state in North Africa.
- He also declared his brother-in-law Mahdi [the messiah], a term most Saudis do not identify with their brand of conservative Islam.
- This is the first report I have seen of Muqtada being considered the Mahdi, and it is possible, though I suspect it is a minority view.
- 1.2 (in Shiite belief) the twelfth imam, who is expected to return and triumph over injustice.
Example sentencesExamples - The Safavid state in Iran was founded in 1501 by Shiite tribes who believed that Shah Ismail was divine, and perhaps that he was the herald of the Shiite Mahdi or messiah.
Origin From Arabic ( al-)mahdī ‘he who is guided in the right way’, passive participle of hadā ‘to guide’. |