Paul's meteoric rise to power is greatly facilitated by his association with the Mahdi legend.

The Ahmadis believe that the promised Mahdi and Messiah ( being one and the same person ) has already arrived in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ( 1835 – 1908 ).

Aqa Mahdi Puya has said that these fake verses were shouted out by the Meccans to make it look like it was Muhammad who said it, he writes:

It has even been suggested that Mahdi ’ s own deputy was a secret supporter of Hasan, waiting to demonstrate his loyalty on the day that Hasan would ultimately take the castle.

Their doctrine was then stated as follows: " God has effected seven successive incarnations of His being, in the shape of prophets whom He sent into the world ; and these were Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, and the Mahdi ".

The art of daf playing in Iranian Kurdistan and other parts of Iran has reached us by the effort of Iranian Sufis ; especially in the 20th century by the late Sayyed Baha-al-Din Shams Ghorayshi ( 1872 – 1947 ), Ostad Haj Khalifeh Karim Safvati ( 1919 -…), Ostad Haj Khalifeh Mirza Agha Ghosi ( 1928 -…), Mohi-al-Din Bolbolani ( 1929 -…), Sayyed Mohammad Shams Ghorayshi ( 1930 -…) and Masha-Allah Bakhtiyari ( 1940 -…), Mahdi Sangi Kermanshahi ( 1991 -...).

Sunnis and other Shi ' ites believe that the Mahdi has not yet been born, and therefore his exact identity is only known to Allah.

Sunnis believe that the Mahdi has not yet been born, and therefore his exact identity is only known to Allah.

* April 8 The Mahdi army has taken full control in Kut and partial control of Najaf, Karbala and Kufa.

MAS also has an affiliate, the MAS Freedom Foundation, whose Executive Director is Mahdi Bray.

The idea of the Mahdi has been described as important to Sufi Muslims, and a " powerful and central religious idea " for Shia Muslims who believe the Mahdi is the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi who will return from occultation.

She has also claimed to be Maitreya and the Mahdi.

Although it carries an Islamic title, the group combines Islamism with Iraqi nationalism, and has been labelled as " resistance " by Iraq's Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi despite regular attacks against Iraqi soldiers and policemen, as well as Shi ' ite militias such as the Mahdi Army and the Badr Organization.

Mahdi has continued to lead the Umma Party, in opposition to Bashir, since being ousted in the 30 June 1989 coup d ' état led by Colonel Omar al ' Bashir.

Since Sadr's Mahdi Army were expelled from the city of Najaf, fighting between rival Shi ' a groups has ceased.

The group are saved and are informed that Mahdi has died of a heart attack.

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Mahdi Bray has served on the board of directors.

The Hojjatieh society has been described as " an underground messianic sect ... which hopes to quicken the coming of the apocalypse " in order to hasten the return of the Mahdi, the prophesied future redeemer of Islam.

Ahmadis believe that the prophecies concerning the Mahdi and the second coming of Jesus have been fulfilled in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ( 1835 – 1908 ), the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement.

Both Ahmadi denominations consider Ahmad to have been the Mahdi and second coming of Jesus.

Drawing from aspects of the Sufi tradition that were intimately familiar to both his followers and his opponents, Muhammad Ahmad claimed that he had been appointed as the Mahdi by a prophetic assembly or hadra ( Arabic: Al-Hadra Al-Nabawiyya, الحضرة النبوية ).

In particular, they argued that he had been born in Dongola, that he lacked proof of descent from Fatima, that he did not have the prophesied physical characteristics of the Mahdi, and that his manifestation did not conform with the " time of troubles " " when the land is filed with oppression, tryanny, and enmity.

Ahmadis believe that the prophecies concerning the Mahdi and the second coming of Jesus have been fulfilled in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian ( 1835 – 1908 ) the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement.

The organisation also states the following have been released as a result of their campaigning: Mallam Turi, Zeenah Ibrahim from Nigeria ; Sheikh Al-Jamri, Bahrain ; Huda Kaya, Bekir Yildiz, Recep Tayyep Erdogan, Nurilhak Saatcioglu, Nurcihan Saatioglu, Turkey ; Sheikh Ahmed Yassine, Abdul Aziz Rantissi, Rabbi Biton, Sheikh Abdulkareem Obeid, Mustafa Dirani from Israeli detention ; Mohammed Mahdi Akef, Egypt ; Dr. Muhammad Osman Elamin, Sudan ; Cehl Meeah, Mauritius ; Abbasi Madani and Ali Behadj, Algeria.

Sadr entered into negotiations with the provisional government to lay down arms and enter the political process, while the U. S. declared that the Mahdi Army had been militarily defeated when Brigadier General Mark Hertling, a top U. S. commander in charge of Najaf, Iraq, stated " The Moqtada militia is militarily defeated.

Soon, the Mahdi Army declared that the truce had been broken and militiamen launched an assault on a police station.

The Mahdi Army, which may not have been acting under Mr. Sadr's orders, refused any agreement that allowed U. S. patrolling Sadr City or which involved the handing in of their weapons.

During his second term, many members of Sadiq al-Mahdi's family were given prominent Ministerial roles, including Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi, who was Interior Minister in the late 1980s, a period during which many human rights abuses have been documented.

This is believed to have been re-established with the appearance of Ghulam Ahmad whom Ahmadis believe was the Promised Messiah and Mahdi.

In April, Hewett led a delegation to Emperor Yohannes IV which negotiated, in exchange for free transit of guns and ammunition through Massawa, access through Ethiopian territory the successful evacuation of the Egyptian garrisons that had been isolated in southern Sudan by the revolt of Muhammad Ahmad ( also known as the Mahdi ) against the Egyptian rulers.

The treatise was written in reply to a question from Siyyid Yúsuf-i-Sidihí Isfahání who had asked the question of how the promised Mahdi could have been " transformed " ( meaning: the return of the Promised One in a different human guise ) into the Báb.

The book was printed by Maktabah Al Hilal, having been reviewed by Dr. Mahdi al Makhzūmi and Dr. Ibrāhim Al Samirā ' ì in eight volumes ; there is however some reservations whether or not the book in its modern form is the original as authored by Al Khalil or is a work based on his original work.

With his mother's guidance, Paul is able to make use of the planted myths by claiming to be the " Mahdi ", a messianic figure from legendary material planted among the Fremen by the Missionaria Protectiva.

Taking advantage of conditions resulting from Ottoman-Egyptian exploitation and maladministration, the Mahdi led a nationalist revolt culminating in the fall of Khartoum on 26 January 1885.

Qaddafi then strongly supported Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al Mahdi, who became prime minister on May 6, 1986.

* 1984 – Muhsin Mahdi publishes an Arabic edition which he claims is faithful to the oldest Arabic versions surviving ( primarily based on the Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in combination with other early manuscripts of the Syrian branch ).

Shi ' a Muslims believe that when the world becomes oppressed, the Imam Mahdi ( also termed the Qa ' im ) will come out of occultation and restore true religion on Earth before the cataclysmic end of the world and judgement day.

A banner on the wall of the office of the Mahdi Army in Al Diwaniyah, Iraq announcing the killing of one of the militia members in Syria

The Najaf cemetery, the largest cemetery in the world, became a battle ground in May 2004 as M1A1 tanks from 2-37 AR fought Mahdi Army soldiers on the outskirts of the cemetery.

The Mahdi Army intensified rocket attacks on the Green Zone and other U. S. bases, killing at least three American soldiers and several civilians.

Over the next month, the Mahdi Army launched a number of attacks on the troops building the barrier, but sustained heavy losses.

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In the spring, the United States and the Coalition Provisional Authority decided to confront the rebels with a pair of assaults: one on Fallujah, the center of the " Mohammed's Army of Al-Ansar ", and another on Najaf, home of an important mosque, which had become the focal point for the Mahdi Army and its activities.

He also wrote Le Mahdi depuis les origines de l ' Islam jusqu ' a nos jours ( 1885 ); Les Origines de la poesie persane ( 1888 ); Prophètes d ' Israel ( 1892 ), and other books on topics connected with the East, and from 1883 onwards drew up the annual reports of the Société Asiatique.

Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah ( Arabic: محمد أحمد المهدي ) ( August 12, 1845 – June 22, 1885 ) was a religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan who, on June 29, 1881, proclaimed himself as the Mahdi or messianic redeemer of the Islamic faith.

The garrison was slaughtered, and Gordon was killed fighting the Mahdi's warriors on the steps of the palace, hacked to pieces and beheaded which the Mahdi forbade.

The courts enforced a Sharia law that the Mahdi claimed was founded on instructions conveyed to him by God in visions.

Named for General ' Chinese ' Charles George Gordon of the British army, who was killed during the Mahdi uprising in 1885, it was officially opened on 8 November 1902 by Kitchener himself.

Perhaps its strongest leaning is " contrarian "— it devotes much space to articles debunking the " popular wisdom ," on topics ranging from Japan's alleged economic crisis to the Mahdi army in Iraq.

He travels on his own to Egypt and Sudan, where in 1882 Muhammad Ahmed proclaimed himself the Mahdi ( Guided One ) and raised a Holy War.

In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi (, also Mehdi ; " Guided One ") is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will stay on earth seven, nine, or nineteen years ( depending on the interpretation ) before the coming of Yaum al-Qiyamah ( literally " Day of the Resurrection " or " Day of the Standing ").

Another source distinguishes between Sunni and Shia beliefs on the Mahdi saying the Sunni believe the Mahdi will be a descendant of the Prophet named Muhammad who will revive the faith, but not necessarily be connected with the end of the world, Jesus or perfection.