The name al-Tabari means simply "from Tabaristan," thus more than one Muslim scholar is known by this designation:

Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, "Ali the scholar from Tabiristan" (838-870 A.D.) was the writer of a medical encyclopedia and the teacher of the scholar physician Zakariya al-Razi .

Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838-923), was the Iranian historian and theologian.