ABSTRACT: This paper offers some preliminary notes on the position of Buddhists in Shi‘a legal and tafsir (exegesis) discourse with particular emphasis on Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i’s treatment of the subject in his al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an. The author concludes that although Tabataba’i introduced some novel elements in Shi‘a tafsir relating to the identity of Sabians in th…