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'''Salah El Mahdi''' ({{lang-ar|صالح المهدي}}), (born '''Mohamed Ibn Abderrahmane Ben Salah Mehdi Chérifi''' on February 9, 1925 in [[Tunis]]) is a Tunisian musicologist, conductor, composer, flautist, music critic and judge. He graduated from [[Zaytuna University]] in 1941 and then at the law school and National School of Administration. He obtained a Ph.D. in musicology in 1981 and a doctorate in letters at the [[University of Poitiers]].
At the age of 18 he left the capital of Tunis to [[La Marsa]] and gave music lessons to students. In 1949 he became director of the institution and ensemble there<ref name="Davis2004">{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Ruth Frances|title=Maʻlūf: Reflections on the Arab Andalusian Music of Tunisia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=L39JSk_d-PgC&pg=PA56|accessdate=30 April 2012|year=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5138-2|page=56}}</ref> and was appointed honorary member of the [[SACEM]]. He was appointed as a judge on November 11, 1951, while assuming the job of music critic in several newspapers. In theater, he performed several roles with the troupe ''[[El Kaoukab]]'' of Tunis, and wrote plays for radio.
In 1961 he was appointed to the Secretariat of State for Culture and information. He helped establish the National Folk Arts Troupe (1962), the [[Tunisian Symphony Orchestra]] (1969), the National Society of Preservation of the Quran and the National School of Chanting the Koran. In 1982, he became general manager of the national cultural activities until his retirement.
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