• Muḥsin Sayyid Mahdī al-Mashhadani (Arabic: محسن مهدي; cited Muhsin S. Mahdi; June 21, 1926 – July 9, 2007) was an Iraqi-American Islamologist and Arabist...
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    edition, known as the Leiden text, was compiled in Arabic by Muhsin Mahdi (1984–1994). Mahdi argued that this version is the earliest extant one (a view...
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  • Iraqi ayatollah Muhsin Mahdi (1926–2007), Iraqi-American islamologist and Arabist Muhsin al-Ramli (born 1967), Iraqi writer Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu (1954–2009)...
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    edition, and as شاهرزاد, Šāhrazād in the Breslau edition (1825–1843). Muhsin Mahdi's critical edition has شهرازاد, Šahrāzād. The spelling Scheherazade first...
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  • Al Mahdi, better known as Dwight York, American musician and writer Muhsin Mahdi (1926–2007), Iraqi-American Islamologist and Arabist Saudatu Mahdi (born...
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    Tabatabaei Qomi, Mirza Mahdi was considered to be the highest ranking cleric in Karbala, and one of the highest in Iraq, along with Muhsin al-Hakim and his...
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    mentioned in the text and what real-life coin-issues they refer to. Muhsin Mahdi, the manuscript's modern editor, thought that it was fourteenth-century...
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    part of his work on the first critical edition of the Nights, Iraq's Muhsin Mahdi has shown that both these manuscripts are "back-translations" of Galland's...
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    conflict with Ibn al-Khatib and the reasons for his departure. Orientalist Muhsin Mahdi interprets that as showing that Ibn Khaldūn later realised that he had...
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  • Arabian Nights: the Husain Haddawy Translation Based on the Text Edited by Muhsin Mahdi, Contexts, Criticism, ed. by Daniel Heller-Roazen (New York: Norton,...
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