Al-Tabari
Iranian scholar, historian and commentator on the Qur'an (839-923) · Academics · Lived 839 to 922 · aged 83
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Something wrong?A 9th-century scholar from northern Iran who produced two works that would anchor Islamic learning for the next millennium: a line-by-line Quran commentary and a chronicle of world history from creation to his own time, both running thousands of pages.
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, Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet.
I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken.
[...] It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave.
About this person
Born in 839 in Amol, Tabaristan, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari studied across the Islamic world before settling into a life of writing that spanned jurisprudence, history, poetry, grammar, mathematics, and medicine. He began as a follower of the Shafi'i legal school, then spent a decade developing his own system of Islamic law - fluid, evolving, debated until his death in 923. That school, called Jariri after his given name Jarir, thrived for two centuries among Sunni scholars before fading from practice. What endured were his twin monuments: Tafsir al-Tabari, the Quranic exegesis, and Tarikh al-Tabari, the historical chronicle. Both became foundational texts of the Islamic Golden Age, written by a man described as an impressively prolific polymath who worked until the end.
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