Tabatabaei ( ar, طباطبائي, ''Ṭabāṭabāʾī''; fa, طباطبایی, ''Ṭabâṭabâyī'') (also spelled Tabatabai, Tabatabaee, Tabatabaie, Tabatabaeyan) is a surname of
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian/
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* 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
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
origin Arabic family name (Tabataba’i), an adjectival form denoting descent from someone called Tabataba, in particular Ismail bin Ibrahim Al-Ghamr,ibn
Hasan ibn Hasan
Hasan ibn Hasan ( ar, حسن ابن حسن, translit=Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan; ), also known as Hasan al-Muthanna ( ar, حسن المثنىٰ, , , translit=Ḥasan al-Muthannā, ), was an Islamic scholar and theologian. He was a son of Hasan ibn Ali and ...
,a great-grandson of
Ali
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
a fourth and last of the ‘rightly guided’ khalifs (see Ali) It is one of many families of Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims primarily predominant in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
, but also in
Iraq
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,
Lebanon
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,
Kuwait
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and
Pakistan
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.
People
(by order of year of birth)
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Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai
Mirza Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabai (Persian: آیت الله میرزا سید محمد طباطبائی, also known as Mohammad Sang-e-laji,;''Sang-e-laj'' (سَنگِلَج) is one of the neighbourhoods of the Old Tehran, not far from the Grand Baz ...
(1842–1920), Iranian leader of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
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Ali Haider Tabatabai
Ali Haider Tabatabai (or Syed Ali Hyder Nazm Tabatabai) born 1854 in Awadh, died 1933 in Hyderabad Deccan, India, was a poet, translator and a scholar of languages. He descended from a long line of soldiers. He translated into Urdu
Urdu ...
(1854-1933), Indian poet and translator
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Ali Tabatabaei
Ali Qazi Tabatabai, also known as "Allamah Qadi" and "Ayatollah Qazi" (1285–1366 AH; 1869–1947 CE), was an Iranian alim (Islamic scholar) and mystic. He was the son of Husseyn and was born in Tabriz, Iran. He was born on 29 April 1866 in Tab ...
(1869-1947), Iranian ayatollah commonly known as
al-Qadi Tabatabai, who was famous for his high level of
Irfan
In Islam, ‘Irfan (Arabic/Persian/Urdu: ; tr, İrfan), literally ‘knowledge, awareness, wisdom’, is gnosis. Islamic mysticism can be considered as a vast range that engulfs theoretical and practical and conventional mysticism, but the co ...
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Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Ali Tababataei Borujerdi (Luri/ fa, آیت الله العظمی سید حسین طباطبایی بروجردی; 23 March 1875 – 30 March 1961) was a leading Iranian Shia Marja' in Iran from approximately 1947 t ...
(1875-1961), Iranian grand ayatollah
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Zia'eddin Tabatabaee
Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabataba'i (June 1889 – 29 August 1969; fa, سید ضیاءالدین طباطبایی) was an Iranian journalist and politician who, with the help of Reza Khan Savadkuhi, led the 1921 Persian coup d'état, and subsequentl ...
(1888–1969), Iranian politician
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Muhsin al-Hakim
Muhsin al-Tabatabaei al-Hakim ( ar, محسن الطباطبائي الحكيم; 31 May 1889 – 2 June 1970) was an Iraqi Shia religious authority.
He became the leading marja' of Najaf in 1946 after the death of Abu al-Hasan al-Isfahani, and ...
(1889–1970), Iraqi Marja
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Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Sayyid Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i (16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his ''T ...
(1903-1981), Iranian philosopher, commonly known as
Allameh Tabatabai
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Sayyid Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i (16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his ''T ...
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Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi ( ar, حسن الطباطبايي القمي; fa, ; 1912–2007) was a prominent Shia marja' who was born in Najaf. He was known as Seyyed Hassan Qomi. Seyyed Hassan was inhabitant in Mashhad, and wa ...
(1912-2007), Iranian cleric who has repeatedly criticized the velayat-e faqih
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Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi ( ar, تقي الطباطبايي القمي fa, , February 21, 1923–October 26, 2016) was an Iranian Shia marja'. He, along with Ali al-Sistani, and Ali Falsafi, were among the only three people to ...
(born 1923), Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja
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Ali Akbar Tabatabaei
Ali Akbar Tabatabaei ( fa, علیاکبر طباطبایی ; 4 September 1930 – 22 July 1980) was an Iranian exile and former press attache to the Iranian embassy in the United States during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Biograp ...
(1930–1980), Iranian exiled politician, murdered in America
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Jazeh Tabatabai
Jazeh Tabatabai ( fa, ژازه تباتبايي) (January 17, 1931 – February 9, 2008) was an Iranian avant-garde Painting, painter, poet, and sculptor. (1931-2008), Iranian painter, poet, and sculptor
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Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei
Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei Shirazi ( fa, سید مهدی طباطبایی شیرازی, March 21, 1936 — May 17, 2018) was an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician who served as member of the Parliament of Iran from 2004 to 2008, represen ...
(1936—2018), Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician. Served as a member of the Parliament of Iran
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Sadeq Tabatabaei
Sadeq Tabatabaei ( fa, صادق طباطبایی; 25 March 1943 – 21 February 2015) was an Iranian writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1980 ...
(1943-2015), Iranian politician, former Deputy Prime Minister
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Mohammad Ali Tabatabaei Hassani
Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Ali Tabatabai Al-Hassani ( ar, السيد محمد علي الطباطبائي الحسني; 1945 – February 2017) was an Iraqi, Twelver Shia Muslim Marja'.
He studied in Shia Islamic seminaries of Karbala an ...
(1945-2017), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja
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Mumtaz
Mumtaz ( ar, ممتاز) is a name commonly used in various countries in the Muslim world, mainly Afghanistan, Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Turkey. It can also be used as a female name. ''Mumtazah'' is a related female versio ...
(born 1947), Indian actress
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Waleed Al-Tabtabaie
Waleed Al-Tabatabaie (Arabic: وليد الطبطبائي) was a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, who represented the third district. Born on 4 April 1964, Al-Tabtabaie obtained a PhD in Islamic studies from Al-Azhar and was an assistant ...
(born 1964), Member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
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Javad Tabatabai
Seyyed Javad Tabatabai ( fa, سید جواد طباطبایی; born 14 December 1945 in Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian philosopher and political scientist. He was Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University o ...
(born 1964), Iranian philosopher
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Jasmin Tabatabai
Jasmin Tabatabai ( fa, یاسمین طباطبائی ; born 8 June 1967 in Tehran, Iran, is a German actress and singer.
Biography
Jasmin Tabatabai's mother is German, and her father is Iranian. She was born and raised in Tehran until the 1979 ...
(born 1967), German-Iranian singer, songwriter and actress
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Hadi Tabatabaei
Hadi Tabatabaei ( fa, هادى طباطبايی , born on April 13, 1973 in Rasht) is a retired Iranian football goalkeeper.
Following Tabatabaei's retirement in 2006 he became a fully qualified coach and holds an Asian Football Confederation ...
(born 1973, Iranian footballer
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Ali Tabatabaee
Ali Tabatabaee () is an Iranian-American musician who is one of two main vocalists in the American band Zebrahead.
Background
Before joining Zebrahead, Tabatabaee was a pre-med student at UC Irvine majoring in Biology and minoring in Theater. ...
(born 1973), American punk musician, member and lead singer of
Zebrahead
Zebrahead is an American rap-punk band from La Habra, California. Formed in 1996, the band has released thirteen studio albums to date.
History
1996–2001: Formation and early years
Zebrahead was formed in La Habra, California in summer ...
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John Tabatabai
John Tabatabai is a Welsh professional poker player (Lisvane, Cardiff) based in London, England. He was the runner-up to Norwegian poker player Annette Obrestad in the first World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.
Education
Tabatabai was a L ...
, Welsh poker player
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Ali Tabatabaei (actor) (1983–2015), Iranian film and television
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Amin Tabatabaei
Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei (born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian chess grandmaster (2018).
Chess career
Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his international master (IM) title in 2015 and was awarded his grandmaster (GM) title by FIDE in April ...
(born 2001), Iranian chess grandmaster
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Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai (born 1991), Iranian who could recite the entire Koran at age seven
Institutions and buildings
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House of Tabatabaei in
Kashan
Kashan ( fa, ; Qashan; Cassan; also romanized as Kāshān) is a city in the northern part of Isfahan province, Iran. At the 2017 census, its population was 396,987 in 90,828 families.
Some etymologists argue that the city name comes from ...
, Iran
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Allameh Tabatabai University
Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU; ælɒːˈme tæbɒːtæbɒːˈʔiː fa, دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی, ''Danushgah-e 'lâmh-e Tâbatâbai'') is one of the largest and the leading specialized public university in humanities and ...
, public university in Tehran, Iran
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Allameh Tabatabaei High School, high school in Tehran, Iran
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See also
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Sayyid
''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali ...
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''Tabataba'' (film), 1988 African film
Hashemite people
Iranian-language surnames