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People claiming to be the Mahdi have appeared across the Muslim world and throughout history since the birth of Islam (AD 610). A claimant Mahdi can wield great temporal, as well as spiritual, power: claimant Mahdis have founded states (e.g. the late 19th-century Mahdiyah in Sudan), as well as religions and sects (e.g. Bábism, or the Ahmadiyya ...
Claimants have included Muhammad Jaunpuri, the founder of the Mahdavia sect; Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the founder of Bábism; Muhammad Ahmad, who established the Mahdist State in Sudan in the late 19th century; Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who proclaimed that he was the promised Messiah and the Mahdi in India in the late 19th century and founded the ...
Abdullah Hashem was born to an Egyptian father and an American mother. [5]In 2005, Abdullah Hashem and Joseph McGowen, attended and filmed a Raëlian seminar in Las Vegas, claiming that they were making a student film.
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Mahdism (Persian: مَهدَویّت, [1] Arabic: المهدوية) in the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, derived from the belief in the reappearance of the Twelfth Shiite Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, as the savior of the apocalypse for the salvation of human beings and the establishment of peace and justice.
Im Lande des Mahdi (The Mahdi Trilogy, 1896) by Karl May, where Kara Ben Nemsi meets Muhammad Ahmad. [23] In Desert and Wilderness, a young adult novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1912) In the 1966 movie Khartoum, the Mahdi was played by Laurence Olivier. In the British sitcom Dad's Army, Lance-Corporal Jones often talks about his encounters with ...
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Similarly, Momen reckons that al-Askari's network of representatives (wukala) likely continued to operate during the Minor Occultation of al-Mahdi. [58] There were also deputy claimants who were officially rejected by the Imamite community, such as Ibn Nusayr, who was known for his connections to the Ghulat (lit. ' exaggerators ' or ...