Mahdi (disambiguation)

The Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam. Mehdi is a variant alternative transliteration.

Mahdi may also refer to:

Islam

• Al-Mahdi (744–785), third Abbasid Caliph, who ruled 775–785
• Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–?), twelfth and final Imam of Twelver Shi`a Islam
• Muhammad II al-Mahdi (976–1010), fourth Caliph of Córdoba in Al-Andalus (11th-century Moorish Iberia)
• Abdallah al-Mahdi Billah (873–934), Isma'ili imam and founder of the Fatimid dynasty, who ruled 909–934
• Mohammed Ahmed Mahdi or Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah (1844–1885), Nubian religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan
• Al-Mahdi al-Husayn (987–1013), imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen who ruled in the years 1003–1013

ibn al Mahdi

• Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi (771–810/11), Abbasid prince
• Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi (779–839), Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet
• Lubana bint Ali ibn al-Mahdi (c. 787/789 – after 820), Arab princess and poet

bint al Mahdi

• Abbasa bint al-Mahdi ibn al-Mansur ibn Muhammad (c. 765 – after 803), Abbasid princess
• Ulayya bint al-Mahdi (777–825), Abbasid princess

People with the given name

Arts and entertainment

• Mahdi Falahati (born 1958), Iranian writer, political expert, television presenter and poet
• Mahdi Fleifel (born 1979), Danish-Palestinian film director
• Mahdi Pakdel (born 1980), Iranian actor

Politics

• Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (1954–2020), Iraqi leader, and commander of the Popular Mobilisation Committee
• Mahdi al-Arabi, Libyan brigadier-general who served in the Libyan Armed Forces
• Mahdi Amel, pen name and pseudonym of Hassan Abdullah Hamdan (1936–1987), Lebanese Marxist intellectual and militant
• Mehdi Bazargan (1907–1995), Iranian scholar, academic, activist and head of Iran's interim government
• Mahdi Dakhlallah (born 1947), Syrian politician and diplomat
• Mahdi Eraqi, or Mehdi Araghi (1930–1979), a founder of Fadayan-e Islam
• Mahdi Al-Gharrawi, Iraqi police officer, the former Commander of the Iraqi Federal Police in Nineveh Province, and Lieutenant General
• Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid, Somali politician, Vice President and then Acting Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia
• Mahdi Aliyu Gusau (born 1981), Nigerian politician, deputy governor of Zamfara State
• Mahdi al-Hafez (born 1943), Minister of Planning in the Interim Iraq Governing Council cabinet
• Mahdi al-Harati (born c. 1973), Irish-Libyan politician and former co-commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan Civil War
• Mahdi Quli Khan Hidayat (1863–1955), Iranian politician, Prime Minister of Iran
• Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai (born 1955), Iraqi Shia Muslim scholar
• Mahdi al-Mashat (born 1986), Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement
• Mahdi Al Tajir (born 1931), Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United Kingdom
• Mahdi Tajik (born 1981), Iranian student activist, journalist and political prisoner

Religion

• Al-Mahdi Ahmad (1633–1681), Imam of Yemen who ruled 1676–1681
• Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin Ahmed (1637–1718), also known as Ṣāḥib al-Mawāhib, Imam of Yemen who ruled 1689–1718
• Al-Mahdi Abbas (1719–1775), Imam of Yemen who ruled 1748–1775
• Mahdi Puya or Ayatullah Agha Hajji Mirza Mahdi Puya Yazdi (1899–1973), Twelver Shi`a Muslim and Islamic scholar
• Mahdi al-Modarresi (born 1977), Muslim scholar and lecturer

Sports

• Al-Mahdi Ali Mukhtar (born 1992), Qatari footballer
• Mahdi Abdul-Sahib (born 1956), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Abduljabbar (born 1991), Bahraini footballer
• Mahdi Abu-Omar (born 1970), Palestinian American chemist
• Mahdi Afri (born 1996), Moroccan visually impaired Paralympic athlete
• Mahdi Fahri Albaar (born 1995), Indonesian footballer
• Mahdi Ali or Mahdi Ali Hassan Redha (born 1965), Emirati footballer and sports manager
• Mahdi Camara (born 1998), French footballer
• Mahdi Ben Cheikh (born 1979), Tunisian volleyball player
• Mahdi Fahes (born 1994), Lebanese footballer
• Mahdi Houryar (born 1945), Iranian wrestler
• Mahdi Jassim (born 1956), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Javid (born 1987), Iranian futsal player
• Mahdi Kadhim (born 1967), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Kamil Shiltagh (born 1995), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Karim Ajeel (born 1983), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi El Khammasi (born 1987), Tunisian born-Qatari footballer
• Mahdi Houssein Mahabeh (born 1995), Djibouti footballer
• Mahdi Marandi (born 1986), Iranian volleyball player
• Mahdi Ouatine (born 1987), Moroccan amateur boxer
• Mahdi Salman, Iraqi basketball player

Others

• Mahdi Abbaszadeh, Iranian philosopher and associate professor of epistemology
• Mahdi Abdul Hadi (born 1944), a political scientist, historian, columnist, author, founder and member of various Palestinian, Arab and international institutions
• Mahdi Agnelli born Edoardo Agnelli (1954–2000), eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat
• Mahdi Ahouie (born 1977), Iranian political scientist
• Mahdi Bray, born Wright Bray (born 1950), Muslim American civil and human rights activist
• Mahdi Elmandjra (1933–2014), Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist
• Mahdi Ghalibafian (1935-2007), Iranian civil engineer and university professor
• Mahdi Gilbert (born 1989), Canadian professional sleight of hand card magician
• Mahdi S. Hantush (1921–1984), American hydrologist
• Mahdi Moudini (born Mahdi Moammer; 1979), Iranian illusionist
• Mahdi Khajeh Piri (born 1955), founder of Noor International Microfilm Center

People with the middle name

Arts and entertainment

• Amir Mahdi Jule (born 1980), Iranian screenwriter and actor

Politics

• Ali Mahdi Muhammad (born 1939), politician and entrepreneur, president of Somalia in 1991
• Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi, Yemeni who was captured and transferred to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
• Muhammad Mahdi Kubba (1900–1984), Iraqi politician
• Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi (1844–1902), the supreme leader of the Sufi Senussi Order
• Salih Mahdi Ammash (1924–1985), Iraqi historian, writer, author, poet, politician and Iraqi army officer
• Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi (1928–1992), King of Libya
• Sayyid Muhammad bin Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi (born 1962), Crown Prince of Libya

Religion

• Mohammed Mahdi Akef (1928–2017), head of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei (1901–1973), Iranian mystic, poet, translator of the Quran, and one of the grand Masters of the philosophical school of Tehran
• Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi (1887–1961), also known as Grand Ayatollah Mirza Mahdi al-Husayni al-Shirazi, Iraqi-Iranian Shia marja
• Mulla Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi (1715–1795), Shia philosopher and theologian

Sports

• Mohammad Mahdi Jafari (born 1964), Iranian karateka
• Mohannad Mahdi Al-Nadawi (born 1975), Iraqi footballer

Others

• Amèle El Mahdi (born 1956), Algerian professor of mathematics and writer
• Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash (1953–2016), American-educated Iraqi scientist
• Mirza Mahdi Ashtiani (1888–1952), Iranian philosopher
• Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi (born 1967), Iranian electrical engineer
• Syed Mahdi Hasnain, Indian commanding officer

People with the surname

Arts and entertainment

• Alexander Siddig or Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (born 1965), a Sudanese-born British actor

Politics

• Abbas Mahdi (born 1898), Iraqi politician and public servant
• Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi (1885–1959), religious and political figures in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
• Abdirahman Mahdi, founder of the Ogaden National Liberation Front
• Abubakar Mahdi, Nigerian politician and Senator for the Borno South constituency of Borno State, Nigeria
• Adil Abdul-Mahdi (born 1942), Prime Minister of Iraq
• Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi (born 1975), also known as Abu Tourab, member of Ansar Dine, a Tuareg Islamist militia in North Africa
• Ahmad Hamza Al-Mahdi, Libyan politician
• Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi, extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi or Sayyid Hadi Abdulrahman al-Mahdi (1918–1971), Sudanese political and religious figure and leader of the Sudanese Ansar religious order
• Khaled A. Mahdi (born 1970), Kuwaiti government official
• Mariam al-Mahdi (born 1965), Sudanese politician
• Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi (born 1950), Sudanese economist and politician
• Muhammad Mahdi Salih Al-Rawi (born 1947 or 1949), Iraqi politician and government minister
• Sadiq al-Mahdi (born 1935), Sudanese political and religious figure
• Siddick Sayed el-Mahdi (1911–1961), Sudanese religious and political leader
• Sammy Mahdi (born 1988), Belgian politician

Religion

• Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi (born 1961), Syrian Islamist cleric

Sports

• Ala Addin Mahdi (born 1996), Yemeni footballer
• Dhurgham Mahdi (born 1951), Iraqi footballer
• Hussain Mahdi (born 2000), Emirati footballer
• Khaled Mahdi (footballer) (born 1987), Palestinian footballer
• Saleh Mehdi (born 1981), Kuwaiti footballer

Others

• As Sayyid Al Imaam Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, better known as Dwight York, American musician and writer
• Muhsin Mahdi (1926–2007), Iraqi-American Islamologist and Arabist
• Saudatu Mahdi (born 1957), Nigerian women's rights advocate

Places

Mosques

• Al-Mahdi Mosque, the Mosque of the Dome of the Mahdi or Al-Mahdi Mosque, one of the historical mosques in the historic old city of Sana'a, Yemen
• Al Mahdi Mosque, Bradford in Bradford, United Kingdom
• Imam Mahdi Mosque, a mosque located in Kuwait City

Others

• Aba Saleh al-Mahdi tunnel, a highway tunnel in Asia running under the Zagros Mountains in the Eqlid, Fars Province of Iran
• El Imam El Mahdi University, Sudanese university
• Sidi Mahdi Airport, Algeria
• Tizi Mahdi, town and commune in Médéa Province, Algeria

Others

• 33rd Al-Mahdi Division, brigade of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps named after the twelfth Shia Imam, Al-Mahdi
• Abu Mahdi (missile), an Iranian naval cruise missile
• The Mahdi, a 1981 political fiction novel
• Mahdi Army, now known as the Peace Companies, militia controlled by Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq
• Mahdi (Dune), a fictional prophet in Frank Herbert's Dune universe
• Mahdi (malware), malware discovered in February 2012

See also

• List of Mahdi claimants, religious leaders claiming the position
• Mahdavi (disambiguation)
• Mahdaviat (disambiguation)
• Mahdist (disambiguation)
• Mahdist War, a colonial war of the late 19th century
• Mardi (disambiguation)
• Muhammad Ahmad (1844–1885), leader of Sudan's mahdiyya regime in the 19th century

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