Sadiq al-Mahdi

Sayyid Sadiq al-Mahdi
الصادق المهدي
al-Mahdi in 1964
6th Prime Minister of Sudan
In office 6 May 1986 – 30 June 1989
President	Ahmed al-Mirghani
Preceded by	Al-Jazuli Daf'allah
Succeeded by	Bakri Hassan Saleh (2017)
In office 27 July 1966 – 18 May 1967
President	Ismail al-Azhari
Preceded by	Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
Succeeded by	Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
Personal details
Born	(1935-12-25)25 December 1935 Al-Abasya, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Died	26 November 2020(2020-11-26) (aged 84) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Political party	National Umma Party
Relations	Muhammad Ahmad (great grandfather) Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi (grandfather) Hadi al-Mahdi (uncle) Abdallah al-Fadil al-Mahdi (uncle)
Children	Siddig, Bushra, Ribah, Mariam
Parent(s)	Al-Siddiq al-Mahdi Rahma Abdullah Jadallah
Education	University of Oxford

Sadiq al-Mahdi (Arabic: الصادق المهدي, romanized: aṣ-Ṣādiq al-Mahdī; 25 December 1935 – 26 November 2020), also known as Sadiq as-Siddiq, was a Sudanese political and religious figure who was Prime Minister of Sudan from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1986 to 1989. He was head of the National Umma Party and Imam of the Ansar, a Sufi order that pledges allegiance to Muhammad Ahmad (1844–1885), who claimed to be the Mahdi, the messianic saviour of Islam.