About the Author:
Tabataba'i was born in 1903 in Tabriz, Iran. He was one of the most prominent thinkers of philosophy and contemporary Shia Islam. He is famous for Tafsir al-Mizan, a twenty-seven-volume work of Quranic exegesis, which he worked on from 1954 until 1972. He studied gnosis, mathematics, jurisprudence and Ali ibn Sina's "Book of Healing" at Najaf, Iraq. He died on November 15, 1981 in Qom, Iran. The Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran is named after him.