Mostafa Abdel-Hamid el-Abbadi (Arabic: مصطفى العبادي; 10 October 1928 – 13 February 2017) was a prominent Egyptian historian, public intellectual and professor specialized in Greco-Roman studies.

[4] Ismail Serageldin credited him with initially proposing the revival of the ancient library of Alexandria.

Mostafa El-Abbadi was married to the literary critic and scholar Azza Kararah, who died in 2015.

[3] His father, Abdel-Hamid El-Abbadi, was a historian and founding dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alexandria.

He had two children, a son, the computer scientist Amr El Abbadi and a daughter, Dr Mohga El-Abbadi.