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Mahdi
Mahdi (Arabic, ‘Rightly Guided One’) Messianic Islamic leader. The title usually refers to Muhammad Ahmad (1844–85) of the Sudan, who declared himself the Mahdi in 1881, and led the attack on
Khartoum (1885) in which British General Charles George
Gordon died. The Mahdi set up a great Islamic empire with its capital at Omdurman. His reign lasted only about six months. The British eventually defeated his followers at Omdurman in 1898.
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Mahdi Army flexing muscles Al-Sadr followers push Sunnis out.
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune; 6/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...capital from their brethren in the south. Mahdi Army militiamen in the Shiite-dominated...cordoned off the area. In the past 10 days, Mahdi Army activity has escalated, intensifying...appears to be part of a strategy by the Mahdi Army to control swaths of the once Sunni...
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Mahdi Army Patrols Shiite Neighborhoods
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...with you." Al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, keeps a sharp eye out for strangers...bombers and other Sunni Arab militants. The Mahdi Army strikes fear among Sunni Arabs, who...district. Coalition officials believe the Mahdi Army and other militias have infiltrated...
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'Abdul-Mahdi's Case & Shi'ite Politics.
Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map; 9/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...preparing a campaign to implicate Abdul-Mahdi and the SIIC in a scandal potentially big...robbery by a gang including some of Abdul-Mahdi's main body-guards. Their plan, as...go away". As details emerged, Abul-Mahdi and the SIIC would suffer a PR body blow...
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Racing News: Mahdi could lose licence over finances; Club warns trainer after complaints from creditors.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Kamil Mahdi, who runs Almushtarak in the Group 1 Queen...Jockey Club, following complaints from Mahdi's creditors. John Maxse, the Jockey...spokesman, said yesterday: "In June, Mahdi was interviewed by the Licensing Committee...
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Life in Sudan Worsened Under Mahdi;Deposed Prime Minister Was Considered Man of Many Words but Little Action
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; When Sadiq Mahdi was elected prime minister of Sudan three...code of Islamic law. When soldiers drove Mahdi off to prison this morning, as part of...they were worse. The 53-year-old Mahdi, educated at Oxford and the great-grandson...
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Surge of Mahdi network threatens U.S. efforts
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/12/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...powerful Shiite armed faction known as the Mahdi Army and its increasingly unpredictable trajectory. The vast Mahdi network - ranging from hard-core fighting...withdrawal. Just a few months ago, the Mahdi Army and its leader, firebrand cleric...
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Al-Sadr consulted clergy, they "rejected" dissolving Mahdi Army.
Newspaper article from: Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq); 4/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...consulted the clergy about dissolving the Mahdi Army, but they rejected this issue, said...al-Maliki's demands to dissolve the Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the Sadrist movement...cleric referred in his statement that the Mahdi Army will be hand by hand with the Iraqi...
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Iran Website Heralds 'Mahdi' by Spring.
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx; 1/3/2007; 700+ words
; ...coming of the Shiite messianic figure, Imam Mahdi, noting he could arrive with Jesus by the spring equinox. Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) will...The World toward Illumination, that the Mahdi will form an army to defeat the enemies...
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The first Osama bin Laden; Rise and fall of the Mahdi in 19th- century Sudan supplies painful lessons in how to respond to religious zealotry.
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA; 3/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Sudan. He told his followers to expect a Mahdi, "The Expected One," sent by Allah...Egyptian authorities did not take the Mahdi seriously. That opinion abruptly changed in 1881 after the Mahdi and his forces massacred an Egyptian army...
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Anti-U.S. Mahdi Army keeps: the calm in Shiite-only areas
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...forces are truly in control. Instead, the Mahdi Army militia runs this area as it does...holds a firm grip on power. Some fear the Mahdi Army is simply biding its time - eager...employee who would give his name only as Abu Mahdi, 36, because he feared Mahdi militia...
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The Mahdi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed (ca. 1844-1885) was an...of the Sudan. He is better known as the Mahdi. Mohammed Ahmed was born on an island in...feel that Allah had selected him as the true Mahdi, the right-guided one or the messianic...
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Ali Mahdi Mohamed 1940–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
Ali Mahdi Mohamed 1940 – Somali politician...Somalia ’ s nominal president, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, has fought to retain his precarious...States nor any other government recognizes Ali Mahdi as the official leader of Somalia, but his...
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Mahdi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
MAHDI Arabic term for the redeemer or messiah. In Arabic, the term al-mahdi means "the guided one." For Islam, the term developed...political significance. By the eighth century, the mahdi would be characterized as a descendant of the prophet...
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mahdi
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
mahdi spiritual and temporal leader expected by Muslims. XVIII. — Arab. mahdīy ‘he who is guided right’, pp. of hadā lead in the right way.
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Ansar, al-
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...Ahmad ibn Abdallah, the self-declared Mahdi in the Sudan, who led the tribes to overthrow...Sudan: the religious disciples of the Mahdi, who joined him on Aba Island in 1881...Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, succeeded the Mahdi as ruler; and members of the Ja'aliyyin...
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