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The Mahdi: The History of the Prophesized Figure Muslims Believe Will Redeem Islam and Bring About the End Times , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min

Violent extremist Sunni and Shiite Muslims are at odds about most things. One of the few points that they can agree upon in the midst of their war of mutual annihilation is that the Apocalypse is coming and that they are the soldiers of its harbinger and redeemer: the Mahdi. Across the Islamic world, the figure of the Mahdi has appeared with increasing prevalence in the last few decades: the "Mahdi Army” patrols Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, thousands of Mahdi impersonators rot in Iranian prisons, the feared Boko Haram army aims to bring about the arrival of the Mahdi in Nigeria, and the leader of the Islamic State changed his name, allowing him to fulfill the prophecy that the Mahdi would be named "Abdullah” and "ibn Muhammad." The Shi'a have always had a deep emotional connection to the belief in the coming of the Mahdi. In fact most Shi'a believe that he has already come to Earth in the form of their hidden ("occulted”) Twelfth Imam, who has watched over humanity for centuries. As the minority group within Islam, they have often lived in lands dominated by Sunnis and typically view the Sunni rulers as corrupt and having turned their backs on true Islam. At the same time, the Mahdi has played a crucial role among Sunnis, and the contemporary obsession with the Mahdi, the "Mahdaviat,” led to the rise of apocalyptic Sunni groups like ISIS. Sunnis, who are often in power in Islamic lands, have been less comfortable with the fundamental assumption of the fallen states of the leadership. However, since the fall of the last caliphate (the Ottoman Empire in 1924) and the domination of most of the Islamic world by European colonial powers and then obviously corrupt and often secular strongmen has made many Sunnis turn away from their leadership and look to the Mahdi for inspiration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Doron Alon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040608/bk_acx0_040608_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tales of the Weird 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 736min

Welcome to the third volume of Tales from the Weird by one of England's top cult writers on the supernatural - Tom Slemen. In this disturbing but thought-provoking book of real-life paranormal nightmares which are set in places ranging from Liverpool to Los Angeles, Alaska to Australia, New York to New Brighton, you will explore some probing questions such as: What demonic child murderer took the bones out of his victims and tied their limbs in knots? Was the Biblical Tree of Knowledge once found in New York's Central Park? What lies behind the eerie reports of ghostly cities seen across the world from Alaska to the Australian Outback? What eerie force whisked a Welsh antiques dealer off the face of the earth in a street crowded with tourists? Who is the sinister Green Man, and why does he visit bedrooms with deadly gifts on Halloween? Who - or what - was the grotesque mimic which tried to rape a foreign exchange student in France? What was the black mass of nothingness which stalked a woman during the New York Blackout? What happened to the lady who received the chilling warning: Dead at 43...? What happened to the boy who found that his entire family had been replaced by creepy robot-like impersonators which then chased him across a city in England? What happened to the method actor who wanted to see the fabled Fourth Wall? What was behind the demonic computer game which overlapped into reality and ended with the stabbing of a Brooklyn teenager? What was the fate of the depraved English millionaire who decided to conjure up the Devil during a high class orgy? What's the dark story behind the heart-stopping haunting known as the Wee Willie Winkie stalker? And why was an innocent teenage girl targeted by the knife-wielding apparition? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Peever. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079010/bk_acx0_079010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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