Mahdi vs Sultan - What's the difference?
mahdi | sultan |
(Islam) A leader in Islamic eschatology, who, it's believed, will appear and restore peace and justice before the end of the world.
*2012 , (Piers Brendon), ‘Beginning the Dissent’, Literary Review , vol. 401:
*:Al-Afghani was a polyglot Persian who became an international agitator, aspiring [...] to unify the Muslim masses behind the Caliph (or even the Mahdi ) and to become himself the Luther of an Islamic reformation.
Originally, a secular office, formally subordinate to -, but de facto the power behind the throne of the (theoretically universal) caliph.
A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
(card games) A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See:
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As a proper noun mahdi
is (islam) a leader in islamic eschatology, who, it's believed, will appear and restore peace and justice before the end of the world.As a noun sultan is
sultan (ruler).mahdi
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(wikipedia Mahdi)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Ahmadis consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmed to be the Mahdi .
