al-Mahdi and Jesus, relationship between

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In one Muslim understanding of the apocalpyse, Jesus and the Mahdi are either allies, redeemers who will arrive one after the other, or the same person

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

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  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 222, 229, 230, 246 [Arabic].
    • al-Mahdi and Jesus, relationship between: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 206, 212, 213–14, 231 [English].

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Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “al-Mahdi and Jesus, relationship between” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/418.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract and categorization, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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