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TABARI [Abu Ja'far Mahommed ibn Jarir ut-Tabari] (838-923)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 322 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TABARI [Abu Ja'far Mahommed ibn Jarir ut-Tabari] (838-923) , Arabian historian and theologian, was born at Amol in Tabaristan (

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

of the Caspian), and studied at Rei (Rai), Bagdad, and in Syria and

Egypt

EGYPT

. Cast upon his own resources after his father's death, he was reduced to

great

GREAT

poverty until he was appointed tutor to the son of the

vizier

VIZIER

`Ubaidallah ibn Yal}ya. He afterwards journeyed to

Egypt

EGYPT

, but soon returned to Bagdad, where he remained as a teacher of tradition and law until his death. His life was simple and dignified, and characterized by extreme

diligence

DILIGENCE

. He is said to have often refused valuable gifts. A Shafi'ite in law, he claimed the right to criticize all schools, and ended by establishing a school of his own, in which, however, be incurred the violent wrath of the Hanbalites.
His works are not numerous, but two of them are very extensive. The one is the Trlkh ur-Rusul wal-Muluk (History of the Prophets and Kings), generally known as the Annals (cf. ARABIA, Literature. " History "). This is a history from the Creation to A.D. 915, and is renowned for its detail and accuracy. It has been published under the editorship of M. J. de

Goeje

GOEJE, MICHAEL JAN DE (1836—1909)

in three

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, comprising thirteen volumes, with two extra volumes containing indices, introduction and glossary (Leiden, 1879-1901). A Persian digest of this

work

WORK

, made in 963 by the Samanid

vizier

VIZIER

al-Bal'ami, has been translated into French by H. Zotenberg (vols. i.-iv., Paris, 1867-1874). A Turkish translation of this was published at

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

(1844). His second

great

GREAT

work

WORK

was the commentary on the Koran, which was marked by the same fullness of detail as the Annals. The size of the work and the independence of judgment in it seem to have prevented it from having a large circulation, but scholars such as Baghawi and Suyuti used it largely. It has been published in thirty vols. (with extra index volume) at Cairo, 1902-1903. An account of it, with brief extracts, has been given by O. Loth in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, vol.

xxxv

XXXV

. (1881), pp. 588-628. Persian and Turkish translations of the commentary exist in manuscript. A third great work was projected by Tabari. This was to be on the traditions of the Companions, &c., of Mahomet. It was not, however, completed. Other smaller works are mentioned in the Fihrist, pp. 234-235.
(G. W. T.)

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