After awarding top Qur’an servants, Abufazl Bahrampour delivered a speech on the personality of Allameh Tabatabaei and Qur’an.

Tabatabaei (1892-1981) was one of the most prominent thinkers of Islamic philosophy. He is famous for Tafsir al-Mizan, the Qur’anic exegesis.

Born in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan province, Tabatabaei was a philosopher, prolific writer, and an inspiring teacher to his students who devoted much of his life to non-political Islamic studies.

It was in Najaf, Iraq, where Tabatabaei developed his major contributions in the fields of Tafsir (interpretation), philosophy, and history of the Shi’a faith. In philosophy the most important of his works is ‘The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism’, which has been published in five volumes with explanatory notes and the commentary of Morteza Motahhari, a student of him.

His other major philosophical work is a voluminous commentary of Asf?r al-Arba’eh, the magnum opus of Mulla Sadra who was the last of the great Persian (Iranian) Muslim thinkers of the medieval age.

Several treatises on the doctrines and history of Shi’ism have remained from him as well. One of these comprises his clarifications and expositions about Shi’a faith in reply to the questions posed by the famous French orientalist Henry Corbin.

Allameh Tabatabaei was also a poet. He composed his poetry mainly in Persian, but occasionally in Arabic as well.

The number of his books stands at 44 , three of which are collections of his articles on various aspects of Islam and Qur’an.