See also:

• MAHDI (Arab. " he who is guided aright ")

MAHDI (Arab. " he who is guided aright ")  , a See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title assumed by the third Abbasid See also:

• CALIPH, CALIF

caliph (see See also:

• CALIPHATE

CALIPHATE: See also:

• ABBASIDS

Abbasids, § 3) . According to Moslem traditionists See also:

• MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

Mahomet declared that one of his descendants, the See also:

• IMAM

imam of See also:

• GOD

God, who would fill the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth with See also:

• EQUITY (Lat. aequitas)

equity and See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice, would See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear the name of al-See also:

• MANDI

mandi . The Sunnis hold that this mandi has not yet appeared . The name of mandi is also given by the Shiite Mahommedans to the last of the imams of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of `See also:

• ALI

Ali . It was under the name of al-mandi that Mokhtar proclaimed 'Ali's son Mahommed as the opponent of the caliph Abdalmalik, and, according to See also:

• SHAHRASTANI [Abu'l-Fath Mahommed ibn `Abdalkarim ush-Shahrastani] (1076 or 1086—1153)

Shahrastani, the See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of the mandi, the hidden deliverer who is one See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day to appear and fill the oppressed See also:

• WORLD

world with righteousness, first arose in connexion with a belief that this Mahommed had not died but lived concealed at See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Radwa, near See also:

• MECCA (Arab. Makkah)

Mecca, guarded by a See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

lion and a See also:

• PANTHER

panther . The hidden imam of the See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• SHIITES (from Arab. shi`a, a party, and then a sect)

Shiites is, however, the twelfth imam, Mahommed See also:

• ABU

Abu'l-Qasim, who disappeared mysteriously in 879 . The belief in the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of the mandi readily See also:

• LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")

lent itself to imposture . Of the many pretenders to this dignity known in all periods of Moslem See also:

• HISTORY

history the most famous was the first caliph of the Fatimite See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty in See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, `Obaidallah al-Mandi, who reigned 909-933 . After him was named the first See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the dynasty, the once important See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Mandia (q.v.) . Another See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement, headed by a See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader who proclaimed himself the mandi (Mahommed See also:

• IBN

ibn Abdallah ibn Tumart), was that of the See also:

• ALMOHADES (properly Muwahhadis, i.e. " Unitarians," the name being corrupted through the Spanish)

Almohades (q.v.) . In 1881 Mahommed Ahmed ibn Seyyid Abdullah (q.v.), a Dongolese, proclaimed himself al-mandi and founded in the eastern See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan the See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short-lived See also:

• EMPIRE

empire overthrown by an Anglo-See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian force at the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of See also:

• OMDURMAN

Omdurman in 1898 . See also:

• CON

Con-currently with the claim of Mahommed Ahmed to be the mandi the same title was claimed by, or for, the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the Senussites, a confraternity powerful in many regions of North Africa .