Al-Tha''ʿ''labi (''Abū Isḥāḳ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nīsābūrī al-Thaʿlabī'' ; died November 1035) was an eleventh-century
Islamic scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...
of
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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origin.
He was accorded a high rank by Sunni scholars. In ''Tabaqat al-Kubra'' of Volume 3 page 23 the appraisal of Thalabi is as follows:
Works
Al-Thaʿlabī is known for two works: the ''
Tafsir al-Thalabi
''Al-Kashf wa-l-bayān ʿan tafsīr al-Qurʾān'' ( ar, الكشف والبيان عن تفسير القرآن), commonly known as the ''Tafsir al-Thalabi'', is a classical Sunni ''tafsir'', or commentary on the Quran, by eleventh-century Islamic s ...
'' and a book on the stories of the prophets, ''ʿArāʾis al-madjālis fī ḳiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ''. The latter has been characterised as 'a work of popular imagination designed for education and entertainment. Organised according to the historical sequence of the prophets, many of the accounts are elaborations from the same sources used by ''
al-Ṭabarī
( ar, أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير بن يزيد الطبري), more commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Muslim historian and scholar from Amol, Tabaristan. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari ...
'' ... It has become the standard source of Islamic prophet stories, alongside the work of
al-Kisāʾī
Al-Kisā’ī () Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Uthman (), called Bahman ibn Fīrūz (), surnamed Abū ‘Abd Allāh (), and Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Hamzah of al-Kūfah ( d. ca. 804 or 812) was preceptor to th ...
'. Unlike al-Thaʿlabī's ''Tafsīr'', this has been printed many times.
[A. Rippin, “al-T̲h̲aʿlabī”, in ''Encyclopædia of Islam,'' ed. by P. J. Bearman and others, 2nd edn, 12 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005), http://dx.doi.org10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_7517.]
See also
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List of Islamic scholars
References
1030s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Quranic exegesis scholars
People from Nishapur
Iranian scholars
11th-century jurists
11th-century Iranian people
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