01 n. Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title.
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Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title.“Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed.” — E. N. Bennett.