Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i

Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
سید محمدحسین طباطبائی
Tabataba'i in 1946
Born16 March 1903
Died15 November 1981(1981-11-15) (aged 78)
Spouse(s)Ghamar Sadat Mahdavi (1923–1964, her death)
Mansoureh Rozbeh (1966–1981, her death)
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionIranian philosophy
SchoolTwelver Shia
InstitutionsQom Hawza
Main interests
Notable ideasInterpreting 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.