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Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī, commonly known as al-Ṭabarī, was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari is widely known for his historical works and expertise in Quranic exegesis, and has been described as "an impressively prolific…
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culture · Muslim scholar, historian, and Quranic exegete (839–923) · historian · philosopher · Islamic jurist · writer · poet · theologian · legal scholar · also Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Al-Tabari, al-Tabari, Tabarî, Abu Ǧaʻfar Muḥammad ibn Ǧarîr Aṭ-Ṭabari
Born 1 January 0839 · Died 0922 · Q192124
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A statue of Jarir Tabari, along with another Iranian scientist, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, was erected in the courtyard of the National Library of Tajikistan
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1999· 1 entry
In the United States, Albania and France
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1998· 1 entry
By State University of New York Press and Paris Diderot University
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1989· 2 entries
Tabari history book of three volumes, with title "History of the Middle East"
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With a suggestion by Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi was held by Kayhan magazine at Mazandaran University
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1987· 1 entry
The ERTU (Egyptian Radio and Television Union) produced the first TV series that presented the life of Jarir Tabari under the name “Imam al-Tabari”, it was directed by Magdy Abou Emira starring Ezzat El Alaili
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1971· 1 entry
Led by Ehsan Yarshater as General Editor and assisted by an Editorial Board Ihsan Abbas, American University of Beirut, Clifford Edmund Bosworth University of Manchester, Jacob Lassner Wayne State University, as Supervis
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1920· 1 entry
A book focusing on Tabari, titled in German as "Die Richtungen der islamischen Koranauslegung", and it was published by Brill Publishers
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1878· 1 entry
Has also translated the Sassanid section of Tabari's history into German, and has since been reprinted several times
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0922· 1 entry
Died 0922.
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0839· 1 entry
Born 0839-01-01.
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