Al-Ṭabarī's Direct Informants

Al-Ṭabarī’s Direct Informants This release pertains to a series of eight blog posts that investigate citation practices involving the phrases ‘he told me’/‘he told us’ (ḥaddathanī/ḥaddathanā) in three of Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī’s (d. 310/923) major works. These are his universal history, Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk; his Quran commentary, Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān (referred to as Tafsīr); and his Tahdhīb al-āthār. We hope to publish in a peer-reviewed journal our work here with additional reflections, data and corrections.