mohadi

Updated: May 22, 2025

"Wherefore are you here?" again demanded the knight, scarcely yet assured that they were human beings which he saw before him. "I am," replied the male dwarf, with much assumed gravity and dignity, "the twelfth Imaum. I am Mohammed Mohadi, the guide and the conductor of the faithful. A hundred horses stand ready saddled for me and my train at the Holy City, and as many at the City of Refuge.

Sir Walter Scott - The Talisman

In the bloody conflict of the Ommiades and Abbassides, the Greeks had stolen the opportunity of avenging their wrongs and enlarging their limits. But a severe retribution was exacted by Mohadi, the third caliph of the new dynasty, who seized, in his turn, the favorable opportunity, while a woman and a child, Irene and Constantine, were seated on the Byzantine throne.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5