1known as the Mahdi, b. 27 Rajab 1260/12 August 1844, d. 9 Ramaḍān 1302/22 June 1885.
Sources
The following references are selective and concentrate on studies on the Mahdi’s intellectual formation and teachings:
GAL S II, 896; Aʿlām, vi, 20; Kaḥḥāla, viii, 284; al-Kurdufānī (1972), passim, see Shaked (1978) for an analysis and “condensed paraphrase” of this near-contemporary biography of the Mahdi; Slatin (1896), 123-32 and passim; Fawzī (1319/1901-2), passim; Shuqayr, iii, 107-358 (625-951), the section on the Mahdi is partly translated in Diet…