Muhsin

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.^{[citation needed]}

Muhsin

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ˈmʊħsɪn, ˈmoħsen]
Gender	Male
Origin
Language(s)	Arabic
Other names
Variant form(s)	Mohssen (United States)

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/.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Personal name

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 Dalloul (born 1933), 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
• Mohsen Mirdamadi (born 1955), Iranian politician
• Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari (1937–2021), Iranian cleric
• Mohsen Namjoo (born 1976), Iranian musician
• Mohsin Qara'ati (born 1945), Iranian Shia cleric
• Mohsen Qomi (born 1960), Iranian cleric and politician
• Mohsen Rais (1896–1975), Iranian diplomat and politician
• Mohsen Rastani (born 1958), Iranian photographer
• Mohsen Rohami (born 1963), Iranian lawyer, Shia cleric and politician
• Mohsen Sadr (1871–1962), Iranian politician
• Mohsen Shadi (born 1988), Iranian rower
• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam (1924–2018), Iranian painter and art professor

Mohsin

• Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini (1932-2021), Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five times between 1967 and 1975
• Mohsin Ali (born 1987), Pakistani track and field athlete
• Mohsin Bhopali (1932–2007), Pakistani Urdu poet
• Mohsin Changezi, (born 1979), Pakistani Urdu poet
• Mohsin Dawar (born 1984), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
• Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri (1945-2022), 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 (1837-1907), Indian politician

Muhsin

• Muhsin ibn Ali, son of Fatimah bint Muhammad and Ali ibn Abi Talib
• Muhsin Ertuğral (born 1959), Turkish football coach
• Muhsin al-Hakim (1889–1970), Iraqi ayatollah
• Muhsin Hakimzadeh (1882–1967), the 9th Shaykh al-Islam and the chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus
• Muhsin Hendricks (1967–2025), South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT activist
• Muhsin Mahdi (1926–2007), Iraqi-American islamologist and Arabist
• Muhsin al-Ramli (born 1967), Iraqi writer
• 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

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
• Abdulqadir Khan, Pakistani engineer and physicist known as 'Muhsin-i-Pakistan'
• Muhlis, list of people with a similar name