| mahdism | (n) belief in the appearance of the Mahdi; devotion to a Mahdi |
| Mahdism | n. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] |