Tabatabaei (
Arabic: طباطبائي, Ṭabāṭabāʾī;
Persian: طباطبایی, Ṭabâṭabâyī) (also spelled Tabatabai, Tabatabaee, Tabatabaie, Tabatabaeyan) is a surname denoting descent from someone called Tabataba, in particular Ismail bin Ibrahim al-Ghamr (son of
Hasan ibn Hasan), a great-grandson of
Ali, the fourth and last of the
Rightly Guided Caliphs. It is one of many families of
SayyidShia Muslims, predominant in
Iran, but also in
Iraq,
Lebanon,
Kuwait and
Pakistan.
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