Ali Hussain Muhsin Al-Wardi (Arabic: علي حسين محسن الوردي)[1] was an Iraqi sociologist and public intellectual specialized in the field of social history.

He grew up defying his family's strict non-modern-educational policy, where his father wanted him to learn a craft instead of reading books.

He later was appointed as a teacher in different elementary and high schools across Iraq, before winning a scholarship to the American University of Beirut, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1943.

The most important works of Ali Al-Wardi are:[2] In 2014, the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, through its publishing house, Dar al-Mamoon, commissioned a team of the best Iraqi translators to translate al-Wardi's major work لمحات اجتماعية من تاريخ العراق الحديث (Social Glimpses of Iraq's Modern History).

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