How to pronounce “mahdi” in English

Caused a lot of in Victorian England when the followers of the Mahdi beheaded, executed General Charles Gordon, a famous British commander.

we think not about the Pope Pius IX, or the Mahdi, we think about socialism and communism.

For example, in the Islamic world, you had in Sudan, the Mahdi in the late 19th century, which established a religious theocracy.