BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTOR Muhsin Mahdi First name Muhsin Last name Mahdi Bibliography entries by this contributor Wright, Owen, and Muhsin Mahdi. 1971. “Al-Fārābī”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, ed. Charles Gillispie, 4:523-526. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. al-Fārābī, Abū-Naṣr. 1969. Alfarabi's Book Of Letters (Kitāb Al-Ḥurūf): Commentary On Aristotle's Metaphysics. Ed. Muhsin Mahdi. Beirut: Dār al-Mašriq.