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Mahdi ibn Ahmed Al-Sumaidaie (Arabic: مهدي بن أحمد الصميدعي, romanized: Mahdi Ibn Ahmad Al Sumaidaye) is the Grand Mufti of Iraq. He 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.