Mahdi
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmɑːdi/
- (Sunni Islam) A leader who, according to Sunni eschatology, will appear and restore peace and justice before the end of the world. [from 17th c.]
- Ahmadis consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmed to be the Mahdi.
- 2012, Piers Brendon, ‘Beginning the Dissent’, Literary Review, vol. 401:
- Al-Afghani was a polyglot Persian who became an international agitator, aspiring [...] to unify the Muslim masses behind the Caliph (or even the Mahdi) and to become himself the Luther of an Islamic reformation.
- (Twelver Shiite Islam) Muhammad al-Mahdi, the last of the Twelve Imams, born in 868 AD but believed alive and present in this world in a state of occultation; officially the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Iran; similarly to Sunni belief he will reappear before the end of time.
- French: mahdi
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