Al-Qa'im (person)
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Al-Qāʾim is a messiah
-like figure in Shia Islam, sometimes referred to as the Mahdi
, but distinctly of a Shiʿa tradition.
Messiah
A messiah is a redeemer figure expected or foretold in one form or another by a religion. Slightly more widely, a messiah is any redeemer figure. Messianic beliefs or theories generally relate to eschatological improvement of the state of humanity or the world, in other words the World to...
-like figure in Shia Islam, sometimes referred to as the Mahdi
Mahdi
In Islamic eschatology, the Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will stay on Earth for seven, nine or nineteen years- before the Day of Judgment and, alongside Jesus, will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice and tyranny.In Shia Islam, the belief in the Mahdi is a "central religious...
, but distinctly of a Shiʿa tradition.