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 117,844 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai is the 595th most popular philosopher (up from 638th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from Iran (up from 194th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 595 out of 1,267. Before him are Luis de Molina, Nancy Fraser, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Myson of Chenae, and Yang Zhu. After him are Bardaisan, Aeschines of Sphettus, Arne Næss, Salomon Maimon, Hans Albert, and Maurice Blondel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 83. Before him are Kang Pan-sok, Harry Stack Sullivan, Walther Nehring, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Vita Sackville-West, and J. B. S. Haldane. After him are Thomas Mitchell, Jack L. Warner, Stanisław Sosabowski, Arnold Hauser, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Konstantin Paustovsky. Among people deceased in 1981, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 50. Before him are Gyula Lóránt, Karl Richter, Stefan Wyszyński, Bernard Lee, Rómulo Betancourt, and Duško Popov. After him are Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Mike Hailwood, Christy Brown, Heinz Kohut, Albert Cohen, and Mao Dun.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 184 out of 631. Before him are Sinatruces of Parthia (-157), Shaykh Tusi (995), Barbet Schroeder (1941), Googoosh (1950), Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933), and Pacorus I (-63). After him are Arsames (-550), Apama (-400), Al-Taftazani (1322), Shahrokh Shah (1734), Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899), and Simko Shikak (1887).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai ranks 12. Before him are Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Mazdak (450), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Mulla Sadra (1571), and Al-Baydawi (1201). After him are Al-Taftazani (1322), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), Hossein Nasr (1933), Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), Dariush Shayegan (1935), and Taraneh Javanbakht (1974).

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