Mahdi (disambiguation)

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Mahdi may refer to:

In Islam:

• Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam
• People claiming to be the Mahdi, religious leaders claiming the position
• Hadith of Jesus praying behind Mahdi, famous hadith in Islam about a prophecied event involving Jesus and the Mahdi
• Muhammad al-Mahdi (born 868), the twelfth and final Shi`a Imam
• Al-Mahdi (ruled 775–785), the third Abbasid Caliph
• Mahdi Puya, Twelver Shi`a Muslim
• Mahdi al-Modarresi, leading Muslim lecturer
• Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, the founder of the Fatimid dynasty
• Muhammad Ahmad, leader of Sudan's mahdiyya regime in the 19th century.

In politics:

• Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi Shiite politician
• Ali Mahdi Muhammad, president of Somalia from January to November of 1991
• Mahdi Al Tajir, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United Kingdom
• Mahdi al-Hafez, Minister of Planning in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003
• Mohammed Mahdi Akef, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudanese political and religious figure
• The Mahdi, a political fiction novel

In law:

• Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi, Yemeni who was captured and transferred to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
• Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi, extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, American-educated Iraqi scientist
• Mahdi Abdul Hadi, lawyer

In Libyan royalty:

• Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, King of Libya
• Sayyid Muhammad bin Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, Crown Prince of Libya

In other fields:

• Amir Mahdi, Hunza member of the Italian K2 Expedition
• Mahdi (Dune), prophet who will ensure a green, lush Dune in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe
• Mahdi Army, a militia controlled by Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq
• Mahdi ElMandjra, Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist
• Mahdi Karim, Iraqi footballer who is a winger for Apollon Limassol and the Iraq national football team
• Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (b. 1965), British actor