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... Mahdi , and uses the title of the Caliph in a manner which does not suggest that the word had at first any mysterious sense . But in the meantime a prophecy of the future advent of a Mahdi had been invented and ascribed to the prophet ...
... Mahdi , and uses the title of the Caliph in a manner which does not suggest that the word had at first any mysterious sense . But in the meantime a prophecy of the future advent of a Mahdi had been invented and ascribed to the prophet ...
Page 221
... Mahdi a descendant of Fatimah , which would exclude the ' Abbasids as well as various branches of the family of ' Alt . In both these works a fantastic etymology is given to the word Mahdi ; it is interpreted as ' the giver ' ( muhdī ) ...
... Mahdi a descendant of Fatimah , which would exclude the ' Abbasids as well as various branches of the family of ' Alt . In both these works a fantastic etymology is given to the word Mahdi ; it is interpreted as ' the giver ' ( muhdī ) ...
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... Mahdi was thought to have arrived because on the one hand the Sultan of Morocco had taken Timbuktoo and the territory belonging to it , while on the other there were civil war , pestilence , and famine . The phrase used by Ibn Khaldun ...
... Mahdi was thought to have arrived because on the one hand the Sultan of Morocco had taken Timbuktoo and the territory belonging to it , while on the other there were civil war , pestilence , and famine . The phrase used by Ibn Khaldun ...
Contents
LIST OF FELLOWS | 12 |
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL 191617 | 17 |
AN ATTEMPT TO RECOVER THE ORIGINAL ORDER OF THE TEXT | 37 |
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