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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai has received more than 113,448 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai is the 638th most popular philosopher (down from 598th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Iran (down from 175th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

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  • 26

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  • 2.47

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  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 638 out of 1,081. Before him are Ari Thorgilsson, Gersonides, Franz Xaver von Baader, Gilbert Ryle, Cebes, and Friedrich Albert Lange. After him are Hippo, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Gautama Maharishi, Johannes Bugenhagen, Peter the Iberian, and Pierre Hadot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 95. Before him are Erich Brandenberger, Guo Moruo, Charles Vanel, Konstantin Paustovsky, Alice Ball, and Harry Dexter White. After him are Ludwig Crüwell, Helmuth Plessner, Dietrich von Saucken, Gustav-Adolf von Zangen, Vita Sackville-West, and Radola Gajda. Among people deceased in 1981, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 61. Before him are Bill Shankly, Mao Dun, Victor Kugler, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Josep Pla, and Alberto Suppici. After him are Gunichi Mikawa, Valeri Kharlamov, Albert Cohen, Lotte Reiniger, Kirill Kondrashin, and Yakov Pavlov.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 194 out of 528. Before him are Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952), Shutruk-Nakhunte (-1300), Al-Taftazani (1322), Mansour Bahrami (1956), Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933), and Sati Beg (1300). After him are Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi (1627), Baba Tahir (947), Orodes III of Parthia (-100), Reza Abbasi (1565), and Daqiqi (1000).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 13. Before him are Mazdak (450), Mulla Sadra (1571), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Al-Shahrastani (1086), Al-Baydawi (1201), and Al-Taftazani (1322). After him are Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), Hossein Nasr (1933), Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), Dariush Shayegan (1935), and Taraneh Javanbakht (1974).

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