Mahdism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]