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Equally characteristic was his attitude toward Mahommed Ahmed, the leader of the "Mahdist" uprising in the Egyptian Sudan.
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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No stranger to New York's charms, the pious Mahdist -- who believes the occult 12th imam will be back soon to deliver us all from evil -- will be addressing the United Nations 'annual General Assembly this Thursday.
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The first, shared beliefs, meant follower and leader espoused a similar interpretation of apocalyptic Mahdist Shiism, and saw the current holy struggle against Israel in a continuum that connected the time of Prophet Mohammed to the coming battle at the end of time, when the Mahdi would return to redeem the earth.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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When she turned eighteen and met her fiancé Selim, she embarked on another phase of her Islamic journey, and dived into Mahdist thought.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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His proposal to subject Muslims to what he expected to be the crueler effects of square projectiles in some ways foreshadowed the punishing ways that rapid-fire weapons would be used to suppress indigenous tribes late in the nineteenth century, including columns of Mahdist fighters in British campaigns along the Nile.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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She was a Mahdist, a Hezbollah cadre, a schoolteacher fresh out of college, and a young girl in love, rolled into one bristling ball of energy.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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No stranger to New York's charms, the pious Mahdist -- who believes the occult 12th imam will be back soon to deliver us all from evil -- will be addressing the United Nations 'annual General Assembly this Thursday.
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Polemicists frequently evoke the Mahdist convictions of Ahmadinejad and of Hezbollah to argue that neither party could behave as a rational actor on the global stage.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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A record of the building of British, Egyptian and Mahdist Armies from the war of 1883 to 1885 using 28mm figures.
Archive 2009-09-01 legatus hedlius 2009
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A record of the building of British, Egyptian and Mahdist Armies from the war of 1883 to 1885 using 28mm figures.
Sudanese Kaskara Swords legatus hedlius 2009
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