Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i

Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
	Grand Ayatollah Allameh Tabatabei
Born	16 March 1903; Tabriz, Sublime State of Persia
Died	15 November 1981 (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

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.

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