What was Al-Tabari's full name?
Al-Ṭabarī ibn-Khaldun
Abū Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
Al-Ṭabarī ibn-Sina
Abū Ja'far ibn-Musa Al-Tabar
Answer
Abū Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839–923) was a Persian historian, Islamic scholar, and Qur'anic commentator. His magnum opus is the multi-volume Tarikh al-Tabari, a universal history of the world from the Creation to the year 915. Al-Tabari's work has been a major source for the study of early Islamic history, and he is considered one of the most important historians of the Islamic Golden Age.
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