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Mahdia (Arabic: المهدية al-Mahdīyah) is a Tunisian coastal city with 76,513 inhabitants, south of Monastir and southeast of Sousse. Mahdia is a provincial...

river, within the Al Anbar province. Qusaybah Sa' dah Al Ubaydi As Sammah Mish 'al Shaqaqivah Al Jurn Babiye Artajah An Nayah Al Mahdiyah Al Ajjamiyah Rawa...

new polity functioned as a jihad state, run like a military camp. The Mahdiyah equalized its male citizenry in totalitarian asceticism, mandating communal...

resided first in Raqqada but soon moved their capital to the newly built Al Mahdiyah on the eastern coast of Tunisia. After succeeding in extending their...

Governorate (Al Qayrawan) Kasserine Governorate (Al Qasrayn) Kebili Governorate (Qibili) Kef Governorate (Al Kaf) Mahdia Governorate (Al Mahdiyah) Manouba...

Menadla) is a locality and archaeological site in Governorate de Mahdia (Al Mahdiyah), Tunisia (North Africa). It is located at 35°25'60" N and 10°16'0" E...

1888–1889, and 1891 before emerging as sole leader of the Mahdiyah or Mahdist State. At first the Mahdiyah was run on military lines as a jihad state, with the...

Abyssinia (original: al-Mahdiyah wa-al-Habashah): 1973 Sudanese Communist Party and the 1969 Sudanese coup d'état: 1985 Imam al-Mahdi: A Painting of a...

reached Al-Mahdiyah, Al-Mu'izz was pledged allegiance as Emir on either 21 or 23 Dhu al-Hijjah 406 AH / May 31 or June 2, 1016 AD. Al-Nawawi. Nihayat al-'arab...

militants during raids on hideouts in two villages near El-Arish of al-Ghora and al-Mahdiyah in northern Sinai. The security officials seized landmines, an...

Anglo-Egyptian force re-conquered the area. The Mahdi's eldest surviving son, Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, was the religious and political leader of the Ansar throughout...

power: claimant Mahdis have founded states (e.g. the late 19th-century Mahdiyah in Sudan), as well as religions and sects (e.g. Bábism, or the Ahmadiyya...

The Reconquest Of The Sudan", 1902, available at Project Gutenberg. The Mahdiyah, 1884–98, at the Library of Congress-Country Studies Fergus Nicoll, The...

Sudan Mehdya, a city in Morocco Mahdiyya or al-Mahdiyya may refer to: The Fatimid caliphate of Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (909–934) Mahdist Sudan (1885–1899)...

revived as a de facto independent state in 1898 after the defeat of the Mahdiyah. The Keira dynasty finally ended in 1916 when the British annexed Darfur...

the people return to a simple and rigorous, even puritanical Islam (see Mahdiyah). The idea of the coming of a Mahdi has roots in Sunni Islamic traditions...

Baggara Arabs of the west. He proved to be an able and ruthless ruler of the Mahdiyah, the Mahdist state. At first the state was run on military lines as a Jihadist...

community from Gujarat, India. In India, during the time of the 18th Fatimid Imam Al-Mustansir Billah around 1093 AD in Egypt, the designated learned people (wulaat)...

surrendered to him a choice between adopting Islam or being killed. The Mahdiyah (Mahdist regime) imposed traditional Sharia Islamic laws. On 12 August...

June 1885, in theory the Kalifas were jointly responsible for ruling the "Mahdiyah", as the Mahdist state of Sudan was known. In practice, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad...