Tabari (name)
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The name Tabari (Persian: طبری) or al-Tabari (Arabic الطبري) means simply "from Tabaristan", an Iranian province corresponding to parts of modern Iranian province of Mazandaran. More than one scholar is known by this designation:
- Abi Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838-923), was a Persian historian and theologian (the most famous and widely-influential person called al-Tabari).
- Omar Tiberiades (Abû Hafs 'Umar ibn al-Farrukhân al-Tabarî) (d.c.815), Persian astrologer and architect.
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, "Ali the scholar from Tabiristan" (838-870 A.D.) was the writer of a medical encyclopedia and the teacher of the scholar-physician Zakariya al-Razi.
- Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Rustom al-Tabari, was a Shia thinker who is commonly confused with the first one. He is the author of the book Dala'il al-Imamah (Proofs of the Imamate)
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari, a 10th century Iranian physician.
- Al-Tabarani, (c. 821-918 CE) the author of numerous ahadeeth.
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