Sufi Abu Taleb (Arabic: صوفي أبو طالب, romanized: Ṣūfī Abū Ṭālib; January 27, 1925 – February 21, 2008)[1] was an Egyptian politician.

He served as Speaker of the People's of Assembly from 1978 to 1983 and, following the assassination of Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981, assumed the duties of acting head of state for eight days per the Egyptian Constitution.

Upon completion of high school, he joined the Faculty of Law at Cairo University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1946.

[1] Previous Posts: Other Occupations: Sufi Abu Taleb died on February 21, 2008, in Malaysia at the age of 83.

His son, Ahmad Sufi Abu Taleb, is an independent politician who ran in the 2000 parliamentary elections, facing in his district Tamia, Fayoum the NDP's veteran MP Hussein Eweiss.