However, this chain of succession was disrupted with the vanishing of the twelfth imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi.
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Hadi al-Mahdi, 44, hosted one of the most popular talk shows in Baghdad, on Radio Demozy.
The biggest challenge, Mr al-Mahdi believes, is to agree on the boundaries of Islam.
Mr al-Mahdi and Mr Mirghani might abandon their southern allies, return to Khartoum and go along with the Egyptian plan.
Both of President Bashir's main rivals, Sadiq al-Mahdi of Umma and Yassir Arman of the former southern rebels, the SPLM, are boycotting the presidential election.
As a result, one of the group's most prominent members, Adel Abd al-Mahdi, a moderate Islamist and a current vice-president, stands a good chance of becoming prime minister.
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"I condemn the murder of Hadi al-Mahdi, " the Director-General said.
The removal of Mr Turabi has cleared the way for the government to make its peace with two exiled northern politicians, Sadiq al-Mahdi, leader of the Umma Party, and Muhammad Osman Mirghani, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.
Scotland's richest man was named as Mahdi al-Tajir, owner of mineral water firm Highland Spring.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, has restrained the hands of the most militant of the armed Shia groups, such as Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.
Iraqi Trade Minister Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih Tuesday called for U.N. aid shipments being held "in the sea" near Iraq or at Iraq's borders to be released into the country.
But Iraqi Trade Minister Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih Tuesday said the U.S. and Britain were holding up shipments of food and medical supplies which Iraq would receive under the oil for food program.
One of the detainees, Mahdi Jassim Abdullah al-Behadili, told the inquiry last month he feared being tortured and executed.
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There are also Shia insurgents, the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr.
Rogue elements of the Mahdi Army are ignoring Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's seven-month-old ceasefire order.
Ali Mahdi Nouri (Sudan) founded in 2004 the Al-Bugaa Theatre, which travels around conflict zones in Sudan and stages plays performed by child soldiers and war orphans.
Al-Maliki's trip follows the visit to Iran last week of Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's Shiite vice president.
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