Al-Tabari: Difference between revisions

{{Distinguish|text=the Muslim scholar and traditonalist[[Muhaddith|traditionist]] [[al-Tabarani]]}}

|denomination=[[Sunni]]<ref>[[Jonathan A.C. Brown]] (2007), ''The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon'', p. 151. [[Brill Publishers]]. {{ISBN|9789004158399}}.</ref>

'''Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī''' ({{lang-ar|أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ}}; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as '''al-Ṭabarī''' ({{lang-ar|ٱلطَّبَرِيّ}}), was a [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslim]] [[ulama|scholar]], [[polymath]], [[Traditionalist conservatism|traditionalist]],<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E |last=Melchert |first=Christopher |publisher=Brill Publishers |year=1997 |isbn=90-04-10952-8 | location= Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands | quote="..al-Tabarī and Ibn Khuzaymah were scholars of very great stature, their published creeds thoroughly traditionalist"|pages=154 |chapter=Chapter 7: Al-Khallal and the Classical Hanbali school}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title= Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation|last=Freyer Stowasser|first=Barbara|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1994|isbn=978-0-19-511148-4|location=New York|quote="The traditionalist Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d. 923) authored a traditionist Qur’anic exegesis, Jami'al-bayan 'an ta’wil ay al-Qur'an (or fi tafsir al-Quran), and a traditionist History of the world.."|page=8|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> [[Islamic history|historian]], [[tafsir|exegete]], [[faqīh|jurist]], and [[aqidah|theologian]] from [[Amol]], [[Tabaristan]], now in 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 [[Quran|Quranic]] exegesis, and has been described as "an impressively prolific polymath".<ref name=Lindsay>Lindsay Jones (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of religion'', volume 13, Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, p. 8943</ref> He authored works on a diverse range of subjects, including [[world history (field)|world history]], [[Arabic poetry|poetry]], [[lexicography]], [[Arabic grammar|grammar]], [[Islamic ethics|ethics]], [[Islamic mathematics|mathematics]], and [[Islamic medicine|medicine]].<ref name=Lindsay/><ref>{{cite book|title=The Cambridge History of Iran, vol 4|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=1975|isbn=978-0-521-20093-6|location=London|pages=599}}</ref> Among his most famous and influential works are his Quranic commentary, ''[[Tafsir al-Tabari]]'', and historical chronicle, ''[[Tarikh al-Tabari]]''.