Mahdi, Muhsin

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Mahdi, Muhsin
Name (Arabic)
مهدى، محسن
Other forms of name
Muhsin Mahdi
Mahdi, Muhsin S
Muhsin S. Mahdi
Date of birth
1926-06-21
Date of death
2007-07-09
Associated Language
ara
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 17304596
Wikidata: Q349694
Library of congress: n 50066346
Sources of Information
  • Contemporary authors, volumes 1-4, first revision, 1967:(Muhsin S(ayyid) Mahdi, b. June 21, 1926)
  • Harvard University gazette, Sept. 13/19, 2007:p. 27 (Muhsin S. Mahdi, the James Richard Jewett Prof. of Arabic emeritus; d. July 9 [2007]; b. 1926 in Karbala, Iraq)
  • His Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history, 1957.
  • His The political orientation of Islamic philosophy, c1982:t.p. (Muhsin S. Mahdi)
  • Information from 678 field, converted Aug. 17, 2014(Dr.)
  • The Author's كتاب الواحد والوحدة, 1990.
  • LCN

Wikipedia description:

Muḥsin Sayyid Mahdī (Arabic: محسن مهدي; cited Muhsin S. Mahdi; June 21, 1926 – July 9, 2007) was an Iraqi-American Islamologist and Arabist. He was a leading authority on Arabian history, philology, and philosophy. His best-known work was the first critical edition of the One Thousand and One Nights.

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