ABSTRACT
Wallis then deals with historical persons who claimed to be the Mahdi, among them Hakim Singh or Ram Singh of India (ctl872), who claimed to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya sect. Regarding the latter, he says: "Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was both Mohammedan Mahdi and Christian Messiah; indeed his claims were triplex, for he held himself out as also the Hindu Avatar, or ’Expected One,’ He was the fulfillment of a prophecy concerning the Second Coming, but he was in no wise subsidiary to Christ, On the con trary, he proclaimed himself superior to him in both personality and doctrine, This Mahdi-Messiah was not blind to the parallel between the circumstances of his time and those of the time of Christ. He pointed them out in some detail and with considerable acumen."
