{Mahdis}[13th April 1991]

[Redbook9:88][19910413:1056d]{Mahdis}[13th April 1991]

19910413.1056

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‘ “Mahdī” … *[was]** a multivalent word that could have quite different meanings for different constituencies. Some Muslims applied “Mahdī” to any justice-restoring divinely guided figure; others including many Jamā‘i-Sunnites, to the apocalyptic figure expected to usher in the millennium before the Last Judgement; and still others, including most Shī‘ites, to a returned or restored Imām.’***

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**(in c[irca] 900CE)

***{cf [[Redbook9:78][19910411:1858]{The Mahdi}[11th April 1991],] 78,

[[Redbook9:95][19910413:1056o]{The Expected Mahdi}[13th April 1991],] 95}

****– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 116

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