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Mahdi ibn Ahmad al-Sumayda'i (Arabic: مهدي بن أحمد الصميدعي, romanized: Mahdī ibn ʾAḥmad al-Ṣumaydaʿī; born 1 July 1955) is an Iraqi Islamic scholar and politician who is currently serving as the grand mufti of Sunnis in Iraq since 2014. Al-Sumayda'i runs the Sunni Fatwa Council in Baghdad, at the Umm-al-Tubul mosque. Since 2014 he has been recognized by the government of Nuri al-Maliki as Grand Mufti of the Sunnis of Iraq, the highest Iraqi Sunni religious authority. He played an important poli
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