Mahdi (disambiguation)
Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
Mahdi is also the name of:
Islam
- Muhammad al-Mahdi (born 869), twelfth and final Imam of Twelver Shi`a Islam
- List of Mahdi claimants, religious leaders claiming the position
- Al-Mahdi (744–785; ruled 775–785), third Abbasid Caliph
- Mahdi Puya (1899–1973), a Twelver Shi`a Muslim and an Islamic scholar, noted for his tafsir of the Qur'an
- Mahdi al-Modarresi (born 1977), Muslim scholar and lecturer
- Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, the founder of the Fatimid dynasty
- Muhammad Ahmad (1844–1885), leader of Sudan's mahdiyya regime in the 19th century
- Al Mahdi Mosque in Bradford, United Kingdom
Politics
- Adil Abdul-Mahdi (born 1942), Iraqi Shiite politician
- Mahdi Dakhlallah (born 1947), Syrian politician and diplomat
- Ali Mahdi Muhammad (born 1939), president of Somalia from January to November 1991
- Mahdi Al Tajir, 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
- Mahdi Army, a militia controlled by Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq
- Mohammed Mahdi Akef (born 1928), head of the Muslim Brotherhood
- Sadiq al-Mahdi (born 1935), Sudanese political and religious figure
- The Mahdi, a 1981 political fiction novel
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 (born 1953), American-educated Iraqi scientist
- Mahdi Abdul Hadi (born 1944), lawyer
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
Other fields
- Mahdi (Dune), prophet who will ensure a green, lush Dune in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe
- Mahdi (malware), malware discovered in February 2012
- Mahdi Elmandjra (1933–2014), Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist
- Mahdi Karim (born 1977), Iraqi footballer who is a winger for Apollon Limassol and the Iraq national football team
- Alexander Siddig (born 1965), full name Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi, (b. 1965), British actor
See also
- DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer
- Mahdist (disambiguation)
- Mardi (disambiguation)
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