# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muhsin-mahdi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:58:13.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/muhsin-mahdi"
name: "Muhsin Mahdi"
slug: "muhsin-mahdi"
description: "Muḥsin Sayyid Mahdī 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."
tagline: "Iraqi-American islamologist and arabist"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-06-21"
deathDate: "2007-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "محسن مهدي"
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    title: "محسن مهدی"
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    title: "Muhsin Mahdi"
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    title: "Muhsin Mahdi"
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    title: "محسن مہدی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump