4to. 624 pp., Arabic lithographed text, contemporary full calf, hinges weak, cover rubbed, title & first page partly damaged and repaired, otherwise copy clean inside and in good condition, published at al-Najf al-Ashraf, 1873.  

Synopsis

Al-Tabtabaei was an Iranian scholar and mystic. He was the son of Hussain Qazi a prominent pupil of the Grand Mirza Shirazi. His maternal grandfather, Mirza Mohsen, was a great jurist. He received the degree of Authority or Ijtihad when he was 27 years old. He learned under the supervision of great scholars, such as Mirza Mousa Tabrizi, Muhammad Ali Qarcheh Daghi, Sayyed Hosein Qazi, Mirza Muhammad Taqi Tabrizi. Muhammad Kazem Khorasani (Akhoond Khorasani), Mirza Fathollah Shariati, Mirza Hosein Tehrani, Sheikh Muhammad Kazem Yazdi, Fazel Sharabyani, Sheikh Muhammad Bahari, Sayyed Ahmad Karbalaei. He wrote several books, including a partially completed Tafsir of the Qur’an, which is a commentary up to verse 91 of Surat al-An’am.