Muhsin
Muhsin (also spelled Mohsen, Mohsin, Mehsin, or Muhsen, Arabic: محسن) is a masculine Arabic given name. In Arabic, it means "the one who beautifies or improves or enriches, particularly one's worship of or relationship with God, or one's actions or conduct toward others" and can mean helper, attractive, beneficent, benefactor, and charitable. It comes from the Arabic language triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-N (meaning "beauty, beautiful, benevolence, benevolent, excellence, excellent"), has two short vowels and a single /s/. The word Muḥsin is the active participle of either ʾiḥsān "excellence of God's worship" (last of the three stages after ʾislām "submission to God's will" and ʾīmān "faith in God's word") or ʾaḥsān, act of kindness or favor or good will for someone. The first person known to have the name "Muhsin" was Muhsin bin Ali, the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah bint Muhammad.
Pronunciation | Arabic: [ˈmʊħsɪn, ˈmoħsen] |
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Gender | Male |
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Language(s) | Arabic |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Mohssen (United States) |
Notable persons with that name include:
Persons with the given name
- Mohsen
- Mohsen Araki (born 1956), Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer, and politician
- Mohsen Badawi (born 1956), Egyptian businessman
- Muhsen Basma (born 1966), Syrian football referee
- Muhsen Bilal (born 1944), Syrian politician
- Mohsen Hamidi (born 1985), Iranian footballer
- Mohsen Kadivar (born 1959), Iranian philosopher
- Mohsen Karimi (born 1983), Iranian Computer Scientific
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf (born 1957), Iranian filmmaker
- Mohsen Mehralizadeh (born 1956), former vice president of Iran
- Mohsen Mirdamadi (born 1955), Iranian politician,
- Mohsen Namjoo (born 1976), Iranian musician
- Mohsen Rastani (born 1958), Iranian photographer
- Mohsen Shadi (born 1988), Iranian rower
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam (1924–2018), Iranian painter and art professor
- Mohsin
- Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini (born 1932), Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five times between 1967 and 1975
- Muhsin al-Hakim (1889–1970), Iraqi ayatollah
- Mohsin Ali, Pakistani track and field athlete
- Mohsin Bhopali (1932–2007), Pakistani Urdu poet
- Mohsin Changezi, (born 1979), Pakistani Urdu poet
- Mohsin Dawar, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
- Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri (born 1945), Malaysian politician
- Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), Pakistani author
- Mohsin Harthi (born 1976), Saudi Arabian footballer
- Mohsin Iqbal (born 1983), Indian cricketer
- Mohsin Kamal (born 1963), Pakistani cricketer
- Mohsin Mighiana (born 1956), Pakistani physician, writer, columnist and humorist
- Mohsin Mulla (born 1981), Canadian cricketer
- Mohsin Naqvi (1947–1996), Pakistani Urdu poet
- Mohsin Razi (born 1955), Pakistani diplomat
- Mohsin-ul-Mulk (born 1837), Indian politician
- Muhsin
- Muhsin al-Ramli (born 1967), Iraqi writer
- Muhsin Ertuğral (born 1959), Turkish football coach
- Muhsin ibn Ali, son of Fatimah bint Muhammad and Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Muhsin Mahdi (1926–2007), Iraqi-American islamologist and Arabist
- Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu (1954–2009), Turkish politician
Persons with the surname
- Mohsen
- Marwan Mohsen (born 1989), Egyptian footballer
- Monti Mohsen (born 2000), Canadian soccer player
- Salah Mohsen (born 1998), Egyptian footballer
- Zuheir Mohsen (1936–1979), Palestinian leader
- Mohsin
- Hani Mohsin (1965–2006), Malaysian celebrity, actor and television host
- Jugnu Mohsin (born 1959), Pakistani publisher and newspaper editor
- Moni Mohsin (born 1963), Pakistani-British writer
- Muhammad Mohsin (1732–1812), Indian Bengali philanthropist
- Saima Mohsin (born 1977), British journalist
- Muhsen
- Ghassan Muhsen (born 1945), Iraqi painter
- Zana Muhsen (born 1965), British author
- Muhsin
- Thamir Muhsin (1938–1995), Iraqi football manager
See also
- Daulatpur Mohsin High School, high school located in Daulatpur, Khulna District, in southern Bangladesh
- Government Hazi Mohammad Mohshin College, government college in Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Hooghly Mohsin College, undergraduate college in Chinsurah, Bardhaman, in West Bengal, India
- Kotla Mohsin Khan, 16th century domed tombs and majestic gateway in the old city of Peshawar