Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i (Persian: سید محمدحسین طباطبائی, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī; 16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam.[1] He is perhaps best known for his Tafsir al-Mizan, a twenty-seven-volume work of tafsir (Quranicexegesis), which he produced between 1954 and 1972.[8] He is commonly known as Allameh Tabataba'i and the Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran is named after him.