Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i Explained
| Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i |
| Birth Date: | 16 March 1903 |
| Birth Place: | Tabriz,[1] [2] Sublime State of Persia |
| Death Place: | Qom, Iran |
| Era: | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region: | Iranian philosophy |
| School Tradition: | Twelver Shia |
| Institutions: | Qom Hawza |
| Spouse: | Ghamar Sadat Mahdavi (1923–1964, her death)
Mansoureh Rozbeh (1966–1981, her death) |
| Influenced: | Morteza Motahhari, Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, Muhammad al-Tijani,[3] Henry Corbin,[4] Hossein Nasr,[5] Mohammad Mofatteh
Muhammad Beheshti, Sayyed Jalal-ed-Din Ashtiani
Ebrahim Amini, Javadi Amoli, Musa Sadr
Makarem Shirazi and Dariush Shayegan[6] |
| Notable Ideas: | Interpreting the Quran with the Quran |
| Native Name Lang: | fa |
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i (; 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.[7] 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 city, 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.[8] 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
- A Shi'ite Anthology, translated into English by William Chittick[9]
- Tafsir al-Mizan
- Shi'a Islam (Persian: Shi’ah dar Islam)
- The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism (Persian: اصول فلسفه و روش رئالیسم Usul-i falsafeh va ravesh-i ri'alism) in five volumes, with the commentary of Murtada Mutahhari.[10]
- Glosses al-kifayah (Persian: Hashiyahi kifayah). Glosses upon the new edition of the Asfar of Sadr al-Din Shirazi Mulla Sadra appearing under the direction of 'Allameh Tabataba'i of which seven volumes have appeared.
- Dialogues with Professor Corbin (Persian: Mushabat ba Ustad Kurban) Two volumes based on conversations carried out between 'Allameh Tabataba'i and Henry Corbin of which the first volume was printed as the yearbook of Maktab-i tashayyu’, 1339 (A.H. Solar)
- Risalah dar hukumat-i islami, (Treatise on Islamic Government).
- Hashiyah-i kifayah (Glosses upon al-Kifayah).
- Risalah dar quwwah wafi'(Treatise on Potentiality and Actuality).
- Risalah dar ithbat-i dha~t (Treatise on the Proof of the Divine Essence).
- Risalah dar sifat (Treatise on the Divine Attributes).
- Risalah dar ata (Treatise on the Divine Acts).
- Risalah dar wasa'il (Treatise on Means).
- Risalah dar insan qabl al-dunya (Treatise on Man before the World)
- Risalah dar insan fi al-dunya (Treatise on Man in the World).
- Risalah dar insan ba'd al-dunya (Treatise on Man after the World).
- Risalah dar nubuwwat (Treatise on Prophecy).
- Risalah dar wilayat (Treatise on Initiation).
- Risalah dar mushtaqqat (Treatise on Derivatives).
- Risalah dar burhan (Treatise on Demonstration).
- Risalah dar mughalatah (Treatise on Sophism).
- Risalah dar tahlil (Treatise on Analysis).
- Risalah dar tarkib (Treatise on Synthesis).
- Risalah dar i’tibarat (Treatise on Contingents).
- Risalah dar nubuwwat wa manamat (Treatise on Prophecy and Dreams)
- Manza’mah dar rasm-i- khatt-i-nasta’liq (Poem on the Method of Writing the Nasta’liq Style of Calligraphy).
- Ali wa al-falsafat al-ilahiya (Ali and Metaphysics)
- Qur'an dar Islam (The Qur'an in Islam).
Poetry
Tabataba'i was also a poet who composed mainly in Persian, but occasionally in Arabic. He also wrote articles and essays.
Pupils
Some of his pupils include:[11] [12] [13]
See also
References
- http://hamshahrionline.ir/details/68287 (Hamshahri)
- http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/73076/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D8%B7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1 Tabnak News
- Web site: al-Tijani al-Samawi . Muhammad . An Invitation to Friends to Join the Research . Al-Islam.org . 7 May 2021 . en . 15 October 2012.
- [Ramin Jahanbegloo]
- Web site: An Introduction to the al-Mizan. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080101134831/http://www.quran.org.uk/articles/ieb_quran_almizan.htm. 2008-01-01.
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- http://www.islamic-laws.com/marja/Allameh%20Tabatabai.pdf Biography of Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei by Amid Algar
- Nasr, Seyyid Hossein in the preface to the book of Shiite in Islam by Allameh tabatabaei, 2005, p. 37
- https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Shi-ite-Anthology
- Book: Tabataba'I. Sayyid Muhammad Husayn. The Return to Being: A Translation of Risalat al-Walayah. 2010. ICAS Press. 9781904063360. 7. en.
- Web site: زندگینامه سيد محمد حسين طباطبايى (علامه طباطبایی) . 2022-12-31 . www.noorsoft.org.
- Web site: سید محمدحسین طباطبائی . 2022-12-31 . ویکی شیعه . fa.
- Web site: سید محمدحسین طباطبایی - ویکی فقه . 2022-12-31 . fa.wikifeqh.ir.
- Web site: MaktabeVahy.org . عارف کامل و سالک واصل حضرت علامه طهرانی قدس الله نفسه الزکیة MaktabeVahy.org - مکتب وحی . 2022-12-31 . MaktabeVahy.org . fa.
- Book: حسینی طهرانی, سید محمد حسین . مهر تابان . انتشارات علامه طباطبائی . 70 . Persian.
- Book: مطهری, مرتضی . مجموعهآثار استاد شهید مطهری . انتشارات صدرا . ، ج۲۵، ص: ۴۲۹ ـ ۴۲۸ . Persian.
- Web site: علامه آیةالله حسن حسن زاده آملی . 2022-12-31 . عرفان و حکمت . fa.
- Riffi, Daoud (2020). "Seyyed Hossein Nasr, un intellectuel dans le siècle". Conscience Soufie (in French). 3 (March): 45–49.
- Book: حسینی طهرانی, سید محمد محسن . فقاهت در تشیع . انتشارات آیین مکتب وحی . 9786006112480 . 1st . iran . 29 . Persian.
- Web site: MaktabeVahy.org . آیت الله حاج سید محمدمحسن حسینی طهرانی قدّس الله نفسه الزکیة MaktabeVahy.org - مکتب وحی . 2022-12-31 . MaktabeVahy.org . fa.
External links
- Some of his works
