Mahdi Definition

mädē
mahdis
noun
A Muslim messianic leader; esp., such a leader and prophet expected by Muslims to appear on earth before the world ends.
Webster's New World
In Twelver Shia belief, the 12th imam, who is expected to emerge from occultation to fulfill this role.
American Heritage
A person who claims to be or is seen as the messiah.
American Heritage

Origin of Mahdi

  • Arabic mahdī rightly guided one, Mahdi passive participle of hadā to lead hdy in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mahdi Sentence Examples

  • The success of the present mahdi in raising the tribes and extending his influence over great tracts of country was a sufficient proof of the governments inability either to reconcile the inhabitants to its rule or to maintain order.

  • On the 22nd of June, before the British rearguard had left Dongola, the mahdi died.

  • At the same time negotiations took place with Great Britain for an Italian occupation of Massawa, and Mancini, dreaming of a vast Anglo-Italian enterprise against the Mahdi, expatiated in.

  • After a brief period of prosperity, the Arabi rising, the riots at Alexandria, and the events generally which led to the British occupation of Egypt in 1882, followed by the losses incurred in the Sudan in the effort to prevent it falling into the hands of the Mahdi, brought Egypt once more to the verge of financial disaster.

  • At that moment it was in a state of - open rebellion, stirred up by a religious fanatic who proclaimed himself a mahdi of Islam.

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