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Mahgoub was a rigid believer in the orthodox Mahdism preached by the Imam�too rigid, in fact, for his own good.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a swinging gait came the vast army of Mahdism.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

When dervishes of the Jaalin and other tribes that had abandoned Mahdism came in they were at once told to behave themselves, and were allowed to go where they liked.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

Through half a score of battles or more, from the beginning to the death of Mahdism, I have followed British and Egyptian troops into action against the dervishes.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

Mahdism was unknown to primitive Islam, no trace of it occurring in the Koran.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop