High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (Ab a far Mu ammad b. ar r b.Yaz d a - abar ) (838-923) was one of the earliest, most prominent and famous Persian historian and exegete of the Qur'an,who wrote exclusively in Arabic , most famous for his Tarikh al-Tabari (History of the Prophets and Kings) and Tafsir al-Tabari.