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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 2217392, member: 75482&quot;]In this case, it might be better to use &quot;the Mahdi&quot; as a title, rather than &quot;al-Mahdi&quot; as a proper name. In an eschatological sense, this is indeed the same &quot;al-Mahdi&#039; encountered by Gordon in the Sudan seven centuries later. The founder of the Almohad (Muwahhid) dynasty, Muhammad ibn Tumart (d. 1130), a Berber religious reformer, proclaimed himself &quot;the Mahdi&quot;, the prophesied redeemer of Islam who would rid the world of evil in preparation for the Day of Judgement. These anonymous coins citing the Mahdi as &quot;our imam&quot; were struck by successors of Ibn Tumart (and others) at a number of mints in Spain and North Africa from c. 1160 until perhaps as late as the middle of the 14th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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