List of Famous people with last name Tabatabaei
Ziya'eddin Tabatabaei
Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabataba'i was an Iranian journalist and politician who, with the help of Reza Khan Savadkuhi, led the 1921 Persian coup d'état, and subsequently became the 18th Prime Minister of Persia (Iran). His legacy remains controversial to this day. His defenders assert that he was a modernist intellectual and pro Constitutionalist who aimed to reform Qajar rule, which was in domestic turmoil and under foreign intervention. While his detractors assert that his policies were pro-British, and aggressive towards Qajar aristocrats.
Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei
Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Sayyid Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his Tafsir al-Mizan, a twenty-seven-volume work of tafsir, which he produced between 1954 and 1972. He is commonly known as Allameh Tabataba'i and the Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran is named after him.