What is Sufi Abu Taleb?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Sufi Abu Taleb | image = Sufi Abu Taleb.gif | imagesize = 180px | office = [[President of Egypt]] | status = Acting | term_start = 6 October 1981 | term_end = 14 October 1981 | predecessor = [[Anwar Sadat]] {{small|(as President)}} | successor = [[Hosni Mubarak]] {{small|(as President)}} | order2 = Speaker of the [[List of Speakers of the House of Representatives (Egypt)|People's Assembly]] of Egypt | term_start2 = 4 November 1978 | term_end2 = 4 November 1983 | predecessor2 = [[Sayed Marey]] | successor2 = [[Mohamed Kamel Leilah]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|01|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Tamiya, [[Faiyum Governorate]], [[Kingdom of Egypt]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2008|2|21|1925|1|27|df=y}} | death_place = [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]] | spouse = Wafeya el Otefi | children = two sons, two daughters }} '''Sufi Abu Taleb''' ({{Lang-ar|صوفى أبو طالب}} {{transl|ar|Ṣūfī Abū Ṭālib}}; January 27, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an [[Egypt]]ian politician. He was Speaker of the [[People's Assembly of Egypt|People's Assembly]] from 1978 to 1983 and, following the [[assassination]] of [[Anwar El Sadat]] on 6 October 1981, he became acting head of state for eight days, until [[Hosni Mubarak]] took power.<ref name=ra>{{cite news |title=Former acting president of Egypt dies in Malaysia |url=http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32078520080221 |work=[[Reuters|Reuters Africa]] |date=2008-02-21 |access-date=2008-02-22 |archive-date=2009-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326001640/http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32078520080221 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Abu Taleb, Sufi}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2008 deaths]] [[Category:Presidents of Egypt]] {{bio-stub}}