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The most important of all the Mahdis was the chief who came forward in
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ABC reports that Sadr wants to try to run the Mahdis from Teheran, but his credibility as a jihadi just tanked.
Where’s Mookie? 2007
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* The U.S. is not trying to overwhelm the Mahdi army during the cease fire, and the Mahdis are reorganizing and consolidating.
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Your Mahdis and Mullahs and Imams were nobodies, but they had only a local prestige.
Greenmantle 2005
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Christ, whom they strangely suppose to have been a mere apocalyptist, one of the many Messiahs or Mahdis who arose at this period in
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Already various Mahdis had made their appearance; several had been highly successful, and two, in mediæval times, had founded dynasties in Egypt.
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Your Mahdis and Mullahs and Imams were nobodies, but they had only a local prestige.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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Mahdis, just as all the Egyptians are potential Arabis.
The Life of Gordon, Volume II Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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An enchanted land -- air, sun, warmth, roses, orange blossom, new potatoes, green peas, veiled Eastern beauties, domed mosques and preaching Mahdis -- everything that feeds the outer and the inner man.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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Eastern beauties, domed mosques and preaching Mahdis -- everything that feeds the outer and the inner man.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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