Ustad sadat biography books
Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
| Full Name | Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Qadi Tabataba'i |
|---|---|
| Lineage | Descendants of Imam al-Hasan (a) |
| Well-Known Relatives | Sayyid 'Ali Qadi |
| Birth | 1321/1904, Tabriz |
| Residence | Tabriz, Najaf, Qom |
| Studied in | Tabriz, Najaf |
| Death | 1402/1981, Qom |
| Burial Place | Holy Shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma'suma, Qom |
| Professors | Sayyid 'Ali Qadi Tabataba'i, Sayyid Abu l-Hasan Isfahani, Muhammad Husayn Gharawi Isfahani, Muhammad Husayn Na'ini, and Sayyid Husayn Badkubi'i |
| Works | Tafsir al-mizan, Usul-i falsafa wa rawish-i ri'alism, Sunan al-Nabi, Shi'a in Islam, Bidayat al-hikma, and Nihayat al-hikma |
Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī (Persian: سید محمدحسین طباطبائی), also known as 'Allama Tabataba'i (Persian: علامه طباطبائی) (b. 1321/1904 - d. 1402/1981), was one of the most influential Shi'a scholars in the context of Iran in the 14th/20th century. He was an expert in philosophy, exegesis, theology, jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, and mysticism.
Allama Tabataba'i is the author of Tafsir al-mizan (a Quranic exegesis), and the famous books of philosophy, Bidayat al-hikma, Nihayat al-hikma, and Usul-i falsafa wa rawish-i ri'alism.
Among his students are Mutahhari, Jawadi Amuli, Bihishti, and Misbah Yazdi - some of the most well-known Shi'a clerics of Iran in the 14th/20th century.
'Allama Tabataba'i introduced the Shi'a school of thought to Europeans through his discussions with Henry Corbin, a French philosopher and an expert in Shi'a studies.
Biography
Birth and Lineage
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i was born in Shadabad, a village in Tabriz. His previous fourteen ancestors were well-known scholars of Tabriz. According to the autobiography quoted by Allama Tabatabai, he was born in 1281 SH/1902-3. However, a manuscript is attributed to him in al-Tabataba'i wa manhajihi fi tafsir al-Mizan, in which it is mentioned that he was born on Dhu l-Hijja 29, 1321/March
Bioraphies
Listed alphabetically by surname
Eskandar Abadi was trained at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Tehran. In the 1980s he continued his studies in Linguistics and Political Studies at the Universities of Frankfurt and Marburg. In 1997 he obtained a PhD in General and Germanic Linguistics with a thesis on auctoriality and narrative perspective in Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg. His publications include a monograph on the Wolfgang Bergsdorf's concept of power and language (Marburg 1985) and a revised version of his doctoral thesis with the titleErzaehlerprofil und Erzaehltechnik im Roman 'Der Zauberberg' - Eine Untersuchung zu Auktorialitaet und Perspektive bei Thomas Mann (1998). Besides being an academic, Eskandar Abadi is also a accomplished satirist, fiction writer for children, singer and violinist with over a dozen literary and musical publications to his name. He is currently an editor of the Persian Radio Service 'Deutsche Welle' in Bonn, Germany.
Hossein Abadian was born in 1962 in Lar, Iran. He is Associate Professor at the Department of History at Qazvin International University. He received his PhD from Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran) in June 2004. His thesis deals with the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Also he earned his BA in Iranian history (1988) and his MA on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution from the same University (1991). His research interests deal with Iranian intellectualism, political Shiism and the history of political parties in Iran (1906-1979). Some of his publications are: Iran from the Collapse of Constitutionalism to the Coup of 1921(2006); The Crisis of Constitutionalism in Iran (1906-1911) (2004); The Biography of Dr Mozaffar Baqa'i (1998); Theoretical Principles of Constitutional and Legitimate Governments(1995); 'Armenians and the Iranian Constitution
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher (1903–1981)
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 (Quranicexegesis), which he produced between 1954 and 1972. He is commonly known as Allameh Tabataba'i and the Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran is named after him.
Biography
He received his earlier education in his native Tabriz, mastering the elements of Arabic and the religious sciences, and at about the age of twenty set out for the great Shiite university of Najaf to continue more advanced studies. He studied at Najaf, under masters such as Ali Tabatabaei (in gnosis), Mirza Muhammad Husain Na'ini, Sheykh Muhammad Hossein Qaravi Esfahani (in Fiqh and Jurisprudence), Sayyid Abu'l-Qasim Khwansari (in Mathematics), as well as studying the standard texts of Avicenna's Shifa, the Asfar of Sadr al-Din Shirazi, and the Tamhid al-qawa'id of Ibn Turkah.
Published works
In Najaf, Tabataba'i developed his major contributions in the fields of Tafsir (interpretation), philosophy, and history of the Shi'a faith. In philosophy the most important of his works is Usul-i falsafeh va ravesh-e-realism (The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism), which has been published in five volumes with explanatory notes and the commentary of Morteza Motahhari. If Ayatollah Haeri is considered the reviver of Qom's hawza in an organizational sense, Tabataba'i's contributions to the field of tafsir, philosophy and mysticism represent the intellectual revitalization of the hawza with lasting implications for the curriculum.
List of publications
Source:
- A Shi'ite Antholo
- Sayyid 'abd al-baghi tabataba'i
- Abu talib tabatabai
Sheikh Abbas Qummi (RA): Author of the book ‘Mafateeh-ul-Jinan’
By Gholamreza Goli Zavareh
Hajj Sheikh Abbas Qumi (RA) is one of the greatest scholars, researchers and narrators who in righteousness and self-sacrifice is an example of such self-made people who want to go further by means of development and guidance. He was brought up in a pious family and he himself embarked upon a thriving faith and spirituality, and due to his efforts in the path of piety and abstemiousness, the luminous heavenly-light enlightened his inner-self and had greatly affected his thought, behavior, mental and propagational efforts. His pious and mystical life is witness to such a claim.
The mystery of the success and popularity of this great scholar among the people, because of his book of supplications named Mafateeh-ul-Jinnan, is because faith and devotion were surging in the stream of his existence and had made his inner-self pure, pleasant and wholesome. Whatever he would write for others or speak of on the pulpit was the truth and came from the core of his heart, and before summoning others to the right path, he himself would practice what he preached.
He, with all his ability, like other Shi’a scholars, stood against the mean cultural customs, self-losing and intellectual conspiracies. He, enjoined the right and forbade the wrong and stood in the battlefield to fight the enemies of faith and with his piety and eloquent speech quenched the thirst of the learned scholars. 1
He, was familiar with the Qur’an from his childhood and when arriving at the verse:
“And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me.” 2 – his whole body would shiver and he would whisper, saying: “How unaware and how far we are from the divine goal”. He was so particular about religious instructions that it seemed that all these instructions were specific to him and he believed that only performing the obligatory deeds is not sufficient t- Tabatabai realism