Allameh Tabatabai Quotes

Sayyid Mohammad Husayn Tabatabai, known as Allameh Tabatabai, was an Iranian Twelver Shia philosopher, theologian, and Quranic commentator, professor in the Hawza of Qom and one of the most influential Shia scholars of the twentieth century. His Tafsir al-Mizan, an exegetical commentary on the entire Quran in twenty volumes, set the standard for Shia philosophical exegesis in the modern era, while The Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism defended a renewed Mulla Sadra-influenced Islamic metaphysics against twentieth-century materialism. The quotes below are attributed to Allameh Tabatabai, organized by topic.