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Medina, appearance of the Mahdi in

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In an early Islamic conception of the apocalypse, the Mahdi emerges in Mecca, goes to Medina, then slips away back to Mecca once people start looking for him

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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), 214 [Arabic].
      • Medina, appearance of the Mahdi in: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 196–7 [English].

    How to Cite This Entry

    Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Medina, appearance of the Mahdi in” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/432.

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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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