Muhsin Mahdi

Muhsin S. Mahdi is the James R. Jewett Professor Emeritus of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern languages and Civilization, Harvard University. He has published the critical Arabic editions of many of Alfarabi's works, as well as the definitive edition of the "Thousand and One Nights" and a pathbreaking study of Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history.

Muhsin S. Mahdi is the James R. Jewett Professor Emeritus of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern languages and Civilization, Harvard University. He has published the critical Arabic editions of many of Alfarabi's works, as well as the definitive edition of the "Thousand and One Nights" and a pathbreaking study of Ibn Khaldun's philosophy of history. See less