Mahdism

English

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Etymology

Mahdi + -ism

Proper noun

Mahdism

  1. Islamic messianism regarding the coming of the Mahdi
    • 1899, Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett, The Downfall of the Dervishes
      Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed.

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