PHILOSOPHER

Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai

1892 - 1981

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai is the 802nd most popular philosopher (down from 595th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Iran (down from 184th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 802 out of 1,267. Before him are Nikolai Amosov, Jean-Luc Marion, Yun Hyu, Melchor Cano, Lie Yukou, and Narayana Guru. After him are Axiothea of Phlius, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, Hayashi Razan, and Wonhyo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 119. Before him are Alice Ball, Helmuth Plessner, Harry Dexter White, Stanisław Maczek, Djuna Barnes, and James M. Cain. After him are Adolf Ziegler, Eugen Meindl, Rebecca West, Corrie ten Boom, Paul Douglas, and Hermann Breith. Among people deceased in 1981, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 88. Before him are Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Yakov Pavlov, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Norman Taurog. After him are Nargis, Mohammad Beheshti, Mariama Bâ, Edith Head, Helmut Gröttrup, and Eraldo Monzeglio.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 237 out of 631. Before him are Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1919), Masawaiyh (777), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), Asadi Tusi (999), Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899), and Shapur IV (null). After him are Phraates I (-190), Shams Pahlavi (1917), Al-Sarakhsi (1009), Ibn Khuzayma (838), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), and Orodes I of Parthia (-190).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 14. Before him are Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Mulla Sadra (1571), Al-Baydawi (1201), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), and Al-Taftazani (1322). After him are Hossein Nasr (1933), Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), Dariush Shayegan (1935), and Taraneh Javanbakht (1974).

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