Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838-923 أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير الطبري) was one of the earliest, most prominent and famous PersianJohn R. Perry, "Tabari was an ethnic Iranian, but wrote exclusively in Arabic", Form and Meaning in Persian Vocabulary: The Arabic Feminine Ending, Published by Mazda Publishers in association with Bibliotheca Persica, 1991… (More on Al-tabri)