Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839-923) was a Moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of Islam. He is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the Koran. Al-Tabari was born in...

ṬABARĪ, AL- (AH 224/5–310; 839–923 CE), fully Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, was an Islamic religious scholar and historian. Born in Āmul in...

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...

The period covered by the volumes under review runs from A.H. 227/841-42 A.D. to 302/914-15, that is, from the accession of the Caliph al-Wathiq to the early years of al-Muqtadir. Tabari's history, entitled the Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, began with the creation and, in the...

Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839-923 A.D.) was one of the most prolific and accomplished thinkers and scholars of Baghdad, the center of learning in his age, renowned for its intellectual and scholastic accomplishments. Linguist and lexicographer, legal theorist, prosodist, philosopher, and physician,...

World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths....