Tag Archives: Allama Tabatabaei

‘Allamah Tabataba’i was very affectionate with his children, as well as his grandchildren. Sometimes he would spend an hour of his valuable time listening to our chatting, or teaching us how to...

I am Shah Husayn Wali! God says [to you] “in these 18 years when have I ever let you go hungry that you have now abandoned your studies and fallen into the thought that until when will the relations between Iraq and Iran remained strained and when will they send …

‘Allamah’s family life was extremely warm and pleasant. When his wife passed away he shed so many tears and was so saddened and moved that one day we asked him, “we should be learning patience and endurance from you - why are...

This story is told by the studious historian, Dr. Rasool Ja’farian in his Maqalat va resalat-e tarikhi (Daftar-e chaharom), quoting from Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Hossein Ash’ari, son of late Ayatollah Ali Asghar Ash’ari Qomi, one of the...

The transmission of scholarly eminence within a given family has been a frequent occurrence in the history of Islamic Iran, particularly after the adoption of Shi’ism during the tenth/sixteenth century. Few, however, are the lineages that could compete for continuity of erudition with the ancestry of ‘Allama Tabataba’i, the...