Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "அல்-தபரி" in Tamil language version.
Although it eventually became extinct, Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni ulama for two centuries after his death.
the Persian-born, Baghdādī polymath Abū Jaʿfar b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 923/310) was putting the finishing ...
...whether the family was of indigenous stock or descended from Arab colonists in Tabaristan is unknown...
...one of the most eminent Iranian scholars of the early Abbasid era... There is thus no way of knowing for certain whether Ṭabari's family was native to the Āol region or perhaps arrived with the wave of Muslim colonists after the Abbasid revolution, either as converts or Arab settlers.
