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Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
سید محمدحسین طباطبائی
Tabataba'i in 1946
Born	16 March 1903 Tabriz, Sublime State of Persia Iran
Died	15 November 1981(1981-11-15) (aged 78) Qom, Iran
Spouse(s)	Ghamar Sadat Mahdavi (1923–1964, her death) Mansoureh Rozbeh (1966–1981, her death)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Iranian philosophy
School	Twelver Shia
Institutions	Qom Hawza
Main interests	Epistemology hadith studies Islamic metaphysics mysticism ontology Quranic exegesis
Notable ideas	Interpreting the Quran with the Quran
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Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i (Persian: سید محمدحسین طباطبائی, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī; 16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his Tafsir al-Mizan, a twenty-seven-volume work of tafsir (Quranic exegesis), which he produced between 1954 and 1972. He is commonly known as Allameh Tabataba'i and the Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran is named after him.

Biography

He received his earlier education in his native Tabriz city, mastering the elements of Arabic and the religious sciences, and at about the age of twenty set out for the great Shiite university of Najaf to continue more advanced studies. He studied at Najaf, under masters such as Ali Tabatabaei (in gnosis), Mirza Muhammad Husain Na'ini, Sheykh Muhammad Hossein Qaravi Esfahani (in Fiqh and Jurisprudence), Sayyid Abu'l-Qasim Khwansari (in Mathematics), as well as studying the standard texts of Avicenna's Shifa, the Asfar of Sadr al-Din Shirazi, and the Tamhid al-qawa'id of Ibn Turkah.

Published works

In Najaf, Tabataba'i developed his major contributions in the fields of Tafsir (interpretation), philosophy, and history of the Shi'a faith. In philosophy the most important of his works is Usul-i falsafeh va ravesh-e-realism (The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism), which has been published in five volumes with explanatory notes and the commentary of Morteza Motahhari. If Ayatollah Haeri is considered the reviver of Qom's hawza in an organizational sense, Tabataba'i's contributions to the field of tafsir, philosophy and mysticism represent the intellectual revitalization of the hawza with lasting implications for the curriculum.

List of publications

• A Shi'ite Anthology, translated into English by William Chittick
• Tafsir al-Mizan
• Shi'a Islam (Persian: Shi’ah dar Islam)
• The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism (Persian: اصول فلسفه و روش رئالیسم Usul-i falsafeh va ravesh-i ri'alism) in five volumes, with the commentary of Murtada Mutahhari.
• Glosses al-kifayah (Persian: Hashiyahi kifayah). Glosses upon the new edition of the Asfar of Sadr al-Din Shirazi Mulla Sadra appearing under the direction of 'Allameh Tabataba'i of which seven volumes have appeared.
• Dialogues with Professor Corbin (Persian: Mushabat ba Ustad Kurban) Two volumes based on conversations carried out between 'Allameh Tabataba'i and Henry Corbin of which the first volume was printed as the yearbook of Maktab-i tashayyu’, 1339 (A.H. Solar)
• Risalah dar hukumat-i islami, (Treatise on Islamic Government).
• Hashiyah-i kifayah (Glosses upon al-Kifayah).
• Risalah dar quwwah wafi'(Treatise on Potentiality and Actuality).
• Risalah dar ithbat-i dha~t (Treatise on the Proof of the Divine Essence).
• Risalah dar sifat (Treatise on the Divine Attributes).
• Risalah dar ata (Treatise on the Divine Acts).
• Risalah dar wasa'il (Treatise on Means).
• Risalah dar insan qabl al-dunya (Treatise on Man before the World)
• Risalah dar insan fi al-dunya (Treatise on Man in the World).
• Risalah dar insan ba'd al-dunya (Treatise on Man after the World).
• Risalah dar nubuwwat (Treatise on Prophecy).
• Risalah dar wilayat (Treatise on Initiation).
• Risalah dar mushtaqqat (Treatise on Derivatives).
• Risalah dar burhan (Treatise on Demonstration).
• Risalah dar mughalatah (Treatise on Sophism).
• Risalah dar tahlil (Treatise on Analysis).
• Risalah dar tarkib (Treatise on Synthesis).
• Risalah dar i’tibarat (Treatise on Contingents).
• Risalah dar nubuwwat wa manamat (Treatise on Prophecy and Dreams)
• Manza’mah dar rasm-i- khatt-i-nasta’liq (Poem on the Method of Writing the Nasta’liq Style of Calligraphy).
• Ali wa al-falsafat al-ilahiya (Ali and Metaphysics)
• Qur'an dar Islam (The Qur'an in Islam).

Poetry

Tabataba'i was also a poet who composed mainly in Persian, but occasionally in Arabic. He also wrote articles and essays.

Pupils

Some of his pupils include:

• Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tihrani
• Morteza Motahhari
• Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
• Musa al-Sadr
• Hussein-Ali Montazeri
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Ja'far Sobhani
• Sayyid Muhammad Muhsin Husayni Tihrani
• Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani

See also

• Islamic scholars
• Islamization of knowledge
• Islamic philosophy
• Ayatollah al-Shirazi
• List of maraji
• Allameh Majlesi
• Hossein Nasr
• Tafsir al-Mizan
• Mohammad Ali Naseri
• Abbas Quchani
• Mohammad Javad Ansari Hamedani
• Mohammad Ali Shah Abadi
• Mirza Javad Agha Tehrani

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External links

• Ashams Al-Sate'ah (الشمس الساطعة - the Bright Sun) - in Memory of Allameh Tabataba'i by Allameh Tehrani
• Biography of Allameh Tabataba'i by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, preface of Shiite Islam
• Biography of Allameh Tabatabaei Taken from: “Stories from the life of Allama Tabataba'i(R) by Ahmad Luqmani, Allameh Tabataba'i, Meezane Ma`refit”, translated by S.K. Yusufali, Qum, Iran, 2006.
• Biography of Allameh Tabataba'i Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine by Mohammad Yazdi

Some of his works

• Some of the books of Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai in Bookfinder.com
• Islamic Teachings In Brief
• The Qur'an in Islam
• al-Mizan
• Muhammad in the Mirror of Islam
• Shiite Islam
• Light Within Me
• A Shia Anthology, A Shi'ite Anthology
• VICEGERENCY (Risalah al-Wilayah)
• Kernel of the Kernel – A Shi'a approach to Sufism
• "Analytic Comparison between 'Allamah Tabataba'i's View and That of Henry Corbin concerning Human Perfection" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-26. (153 KiB)

• Iranian writers
• Quranic exegesis scholars
• People from Tabriz
• Iranian expatriates in Iraq
• 1903 births
• 1981 deaths
• Iranian Shia clerics
• 20th-century Iranian philosophers
• Iranian Muslim mystics
• Burials at Fatima Masumeh Shrine