How To Use Mahdi In A Sentence
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His militia, the Army of the Mahdi, is running courts and jailing people in the basements of tenement buildings.
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He also declared his brother-in-law Mahdi [the messiah], a term most Saudis do not identify with their brand of conservative Islam.
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Imams or Christs, Mahdis or Messiahs were there to cancel all debts, atone for all insults.
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Mahdi, 56, had been imprisoned and then under house arrest since his civilian government was overthrown in June 1989.
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I always thought the word ragtag best applied to the Mahdi Army.
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In nearby Qizilja, the Timimi tribe, which is Shia, is in the ascendancy, under the leadership of the powerful Mahdi Hassan Attia, the local mukhtar (magistrate).
The Protection Business
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Our main enemy is not primarily the Mahdi army or any of the factions in Iraq but Ahmadinejad and the mullahocracy in Iran.
Sound Politics: "Double Down"?
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Jesus [pbuh] will not come to the people of Mohammed as a Prophet, but to practice the religion of Mohammed� (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi ` Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 68)
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The background to this story is, apparently, that a number of members of the Mahdi Army were arrested on Sunday and tossed in the hoosegow.
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Much of the vigor of the textile traditions of Mahdia comes through the embellishment of woven cloth with embroidery and the addition of fringes, tassels, and pompoms.
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Only the return of the “occulted” Mahdi would bring justice to earth.
A Privilege to Die
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As time passes with the city's inhabitants weakening due to lack of food and the Mahdi's forces isolating the city, Gordon prepares Khartoum to repel invasion, all the time still hopeful of British intervention.
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He admitted that rumors were circulating that Badr Corps fighters were betraying to the Americans the hiding-places of Mahdi Army officials.
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The draw-loom of Mahdia is a much simpler device, with four supplementary heddles operated in sequence by the weaver's assistant.
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Christ, whom they strangely suppose to have been a mere apocalyptist, one of the many Messiahs or Mahdis who arose at this period in
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The execution of Philip of Mahdiyah happened at the very time when engravers were at work on the silver planisphere, and al-Idrisi was bringing his decade and a half of study to an end by writing A Diversion for the Man Longing to Travel to Far-Off Places.
Delizia!
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Much of the vigor of the textile traditions of Mahdia comes through the embellishment of woven cloth with embroidery and the addition of fringes, tassels, and pompoms.
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SOUNDBITE (English) Sadiq Al-Mahdi, head of the Umma Party: Self determination is a decision by the people of Sudan to seek voluntary unity.
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Mahdi denies that his movement wants weapons or financing from Washington, saying moral support and diplomatic pressure are enough.
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If I cannot, I shall retire to the Equator and leave you the indelible disgrace of abandoning the garrisons of Sennar, Kassala, Berber and Dongola, with the certainty that you will eventually be forced to smash up the Mahdi under great difficulties, if you would retain peace in Egypt.
Three Empires on the Nile
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British military forces attacked Mahdi Army positions in Amarah, killing 20 persons and wounding 78.
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The government has launched a similar crackdown on the Mahdi Army in the southern city of Amara, which is seen as a hub for weapons smuggling by the group.
Sadr Looks to Exert Political Power
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SOUNDBITE (English) Sadiq Al-Mahdi, head of the Umma Party: Self determination is a decision by the people of Sudan to seek voluntary unity.
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The frameworks of the looms are made in Mahdia and assembled using only wooden doweling, because metal nails would snag the threads.
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Mahdi, 56, had been imprisoned and then under house arrest since his civilian government was overthrown in June 1989.
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The following day, militiamen of Sadr's Mahdi Army attempted to seal off the densely populated suburb with barricades to prevent US forces entering again.
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Cromer feared losing Kassala to the Mahdists, but that did not mean he wanted to fight the eight thousand Dervishes at Dongola.
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