Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.
A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.
One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
One of a school of ancient Indian ascetic philosophers, reported in antiquity, who wore little clothing; a mystic.