In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact with a hidden ...

That’s because the Fuhrer was the “Hidden Imam,” the Mahdi, a long-awaited Islamic messiah expected by Iran’s Twelver Shi’ites to usher in an era of universal justice on earth.