TABARI (NAME)

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The name 'Tabari' (Mazandarani/Persian: 'تبری' or 'طبری') or 'al-Tabari' (Arabic الطبري) means simply "from Tabaria (Tabaristan)", modern Iranian province of Mazandaran in Caspian sea. Thus more than one scholar is known by this designation:

★ 'Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Kathir al-Tabari ' (838-923), was a Mazandarani historian and theologian (the most famous and widely-influential person called al-Tabari).

★ '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)

★ '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.

★ 'Abul Hasan al-Tabari', a 10th century Iranian physician.

★ 'Al-Tabarani', (c. 821-918 CE) the author of numerous ahadeeth.

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