ABSTRACT
Ab-Ja’far Muhammad b. Jarar al-Tabari (d. AH 310/923 CE) was the most important scholar of his generation. His works exerted a profound influence on future Muslim scholarship, because of both their voluminous content and their meticulous methods of inquiry. Although many of his works have not survived, his two most famous works, his History (Ta’rikh al-Rusul Wa’l-mul-k) and his Qur’an commentary (Tafsir), remain standard references today.
