Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (Persie: محمد بن جریر طبری, Arabic: أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير بن يزيد الطبري‎‎) (224–310 AH; 839–923 AD) wis a prominent an influential Persie scholar, historian an exegete o the Qur'an frae Tabaristan, modren Mazandaran Province in Iran, wha componed aw his wirks in Arabic. The day, he is best kent for his expertise in tafsir, fiqh, an history, but he haes been describit as ""an impressively prolific polymath. He wrote on such subjects as poetry, lexicografie, grammar, ethics, mathematics, an medicine.