--- title: "2 Muhsin Mahdi Quotes - Famous Arabist" description: "Iraqi-American islamologist and arabist... | Muḥsin Sayyid Mahdī was an Iraqi-American Islamologist and Arabist. He was a leading authority on Arabian h..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-muhsin-mahdi-87033.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Muhsin Mahdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-muhsin-mahdi-87033.jpg) # Muhsin Mahdi (1926–2007) Arabist **2** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Muhsin Mahdi was an arabist. ## Quick Facts About Muhsin Mahdi Born June 21, 1926 Died July 9, 2007 Profession Arabist ## About Muhsin Mahdi Iraqi-American islamologist and arabist... \| 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. ## Quotes by Muhsin Mahdi > [“Consider, Mighty Creator of all things, the differences between Sindbad's life and mine. Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhsin-mahdi/consider-mighty-creator-of-all-things-the-differences-between-sindbad/) [Muhsin Mahdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhsin-mahdi/) [Every day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/every-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/muhsin-mahdi-87033_every-day_consider-mighty-creator-of-all-things-th_955759.jpg) > [“Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhsin-mahdi/now-the-arabian-nights-some-of-which-but-not-nearly-all-are-given-in/) [Muhsin Mahdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhsin-mahdi/) [Different times](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different-times/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/muhsin-mahdi-87033_different-times_now-the-arabian-nights-some-of-which-but_1907370.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhsin-mahdi/#itemlist", "name": "Muhsin Mahdi Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Consider, Mighty Creator of all things, the differences between Sindbad's life and mine. Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! 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He was put to death by the Caliph in a very cruel way, nobody ever knew why. The stories must have been told in their present shape a good long while after the Caliph died, when nobody knew very exactly what had really happened. At last some storyteller thought of writing down the tales, and fixing them into a kind of framework, as if they had all been narrated to a cruel Sultan by his wife. Probably the tales were written down about the time when Edward I. was fighting Robert Bruce. But changes were made in them at different times, and a great deal that is very dull and stupid was put in, and plenty of verses. 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