Muhsin (also spelled Mohsen, Mohsin, Mehsin, or Muhsen, Arabic: محسن) is a masculine Arabic given name. The first person known to have the name "Muhsin" was Muhsin ibn Ali, the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah bint Muhammad.
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Islamic term
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.
Personal name
Notable persons with that name include:
Persons with the given name
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 Dalloul (1933–2026), Lebanese journalist and politician
Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh (born in 1987), Iranian singer
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (1958–2020), Iranian nuclear physicist
Mohsen Faqihi (born 1952), Iranian cleric
Mohsen Habacha (1942–2025), Tunisian footballer
Mohsen Hamidi (born 1985), Iranian footballer
Mohsen Heidari Alekasir (born 1957), Iranian cleric
Mohsen Kadivar (born 1959), Iranian philosopher
Mohsen Karimi (born 1994), Iranian footballer
Mohsen Kharazi (born 1937), Iranian cleric
Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi (1924–2011), Iranian cleric
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (born 1957), Iranian filmmaker
Mohsen Mehralizadeh (born 1956), former vice president of Iran
Persons with the surname
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
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
Ghassan Muhsen (born 1945), Iraqi painter
Zana Muhsen (born 1965), British author