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Mahdiism

Mahdiism is the alternative form of Mahdism.

Meaning of Mahdism

Proper noun

Mahdism

  1. Islamic messianism regarding the coming of the Mahdi
    • Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed.1899, Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett, The Downfall of the Dervishes

Origin of Mahdiism

From Mahdi + -ism.

Questions about Mahdiism

What is Mahdiism the alternative form of?
Mahdiism is the alternative form of Mahdism.

Words near Mahdiism in the dictionary

  1. Mahdavis
  2. Mahdavism
  3. Mahdi
  4. Mahdian
  5. Mahdihood
  6. Mahdiism
  7. Mahdiist
  8. Mahdiists
  9. Mahdiqoli
  10. Mahdis
  11. Mahdiship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mahdiism (page history and authors); Mahdism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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