Abu Ishaq al-Tha'labi

Abu Ishaq Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Nisaburi al-Thalabi, known simply as al-Thalabi, died in November 1035 and was an eleventh century Sunni Muslim scholar of Persian origin considered a leading Quranic exegete of his era. He authored the classical exegesis Tafsir al-Thalabi and Araais al-Majalis, regarded as one of the best and most frequently consulted works in the Islamic qisas al-anbiya genre of prophet stories, and he was also known as an expert Quranic reciter, traditionist, linguist, philologist, preacher, historian, litterateur and theologian. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/