in full Ab 016B; Ja 02BD; far Mu 1E25; ammad ibn Jar 012B; r al- 1E6C; abar 012B;
born 0441; 839, 0100; mol, Iran
died 923, Baghdad, Iraq
Muslim scholar, Qur 02BE; 0101; nic commentator, and historian.
After studying in Islamic centres of learning in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, he wrote the compendious Commentary on the Qur 02BE; 0101; n (see tafs 012B; r ), in which he annotated Islam's holy book with all of the juridical, lexicographical, and historical explanations transmitted in the Had 012B; th . His other major work was the History of Prophets and Kings , which charted the history of human civilization from creation to the fall of the Umayyad dynasty .