Biography Mahdi Ibn-Helduna

Mahdi Ibn-Heldun (Prolegomenes, franz. Transl. Slane, II, 158) says: "Muslims have long been assimilated the view that the end of time must certainly come from a sort of prophet a man who will support the religion and the truth will win. Myself attracted the true believers, he will rule over the Muslim states and will be called MM ( "directed", ie "blagonapravlennym). Then comes Dedzhzhal (= Antichrist), and execute the event, which marked the approach of the last hours of peace with. After the coming of the Antichrist will come down from heaven, Jesus and kill him, according to another legend Iiisus descend simultaneously with M ., help him destroy Dedzhzhalya and, if sovereshenii prayer, recognizes M. for Imam. On the idea of M. (messianism) in the Quran does not even hint: it keeps the Muslims on the basis of legends. The history of this idea, going back to belief in zoroastrovu Saoshyanta, represented by Renan in the "Vie de Jesus" and in J. Darmestetera in "Ormazd et Ahriman" (Par., 1877). The people declaring themselves to Moscow, to appear in the Moslem world for many, their history presented in Op. J. Darmestetera, "Le Mahdi depuis les origines del'islam jusqu'a nos jours" (Par., 1885), Chapter VIII is devoted to ascetic Sudanese (dervish), Mohammed Ahmed, who was born in Dongola in 1843, has advertised itself in August 1881 AM and has spawned a religio-political agitation, which are still continuing in Sudan.