mahdism

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mahdism - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mahdism \Mah"dism\, n.
     Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the
     cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. --
     Mah"dist, n.
  
           Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible
           instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern
           world has ever witnessed.                --E. N.
                                                    Bennett.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

mahdism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Mahdism
      n 1: belief in the appearance of the Mahdi; devotion to a Mahdi