Tabatabai

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Tabatabai (also spelled Tabataba'i, Tabatabaee, Tabatabaei) are one of the only few remaining families from the descendants of Hassan ibn Ali, the second imam of Shi'as, populated mostly in Iran/Persia, but also in Iraq and Lebanon.

Many prominent Shi'a theoreticians and leaders trace their roots to this family, including Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim Tabatabai, the worldwide leader of Shia Muslims from 1955 to 1970.

The Persian Allameh Tabatabaei (1892-1981) (علامه سید محمد حسین طباطبائی) was one of the most prominent thinkers of contemporary Shia Islam, and has a prestigious university in Tehran, Iran named after him, Allameh Tabatabaei University.

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