Muhsin Mahdi

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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. 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.^[1][2][3]