''ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṣāliḥ as Samāhijī'' (1675–1722) ( ar, عبد الله بن صالح السماهيجي) was a
Bahrain
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i
Shia
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Islamic scholar who lived during the
Safavid
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period. He was born in the village of
Samaheej
Samaheej ( ar, سماهيج ''Samāhīj'') is a village in Bahrain on the northern coast of Muharraq Island. Al Dair village lies to its northwest, while Galali lies to its southeast. It is north of Bahrain International Airport.
Samaheej ( ' ...
on
Muharraq Island
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History
It is named after Muharraq City, the former capital ...
, and like many of his Bahraini contemporaries, he was a follower of the
Akhbari
The ʾAkhbāri's ( ar, أخباریون, fa, اخباریان) are a minority of Twelver Shia Muslims who reject the use of reasoning in deriving verdicts, and believe in Quran and Hadith.
The term ʾAkhbāri's (from ''khabāra'', news or r ...
theological school—although his father was a pure
Usuli
Usulis ( ar, اصولیون, fa, اصولیان) are the majority Twelver Shi'a Muslim group. They differ from their now much smaller rival Akhbari group in favoring the use of ''ijtihad'' (i.e., reasoning) in the creation of new rules of ''fiq ...
who detested Akhbaris. Among his teachers was ''Sulaymān ibn ʿAbdullāh al Maḥūdhī''.
After the
1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain, as Samāhijī fled to
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
where he briefly served as the
Sheikh ul-Islam.
[
Andrew J. Newman]
The Nature of the Akhbārī/Uṣūlī Dispute in Late Ṣafawid Iran. Part 1: 'Abdallāh al-Samāhijī's "Munyat al-Mumārisīn
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 55, No. 1 (1992), pp. 22-51 He then settled in
Behbehan where he died in 1722.
Among his works is ''Munyat al Mumārisīn'' in
Arabic
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, which includes an examination of the
Akhbari
The ʾAkhbāri's ( ar, أخباریون, fa, اخباریان) are a minority of Twelver Shia Muslims who reject the use of reasoning in deriving verdicts, and believe in Quran and Hadith.
The term ʾAkhbāri's (from ''khabāra'', news or r ...
-
Usuli
Usulis ( ar, اصولیون, fa, اصولیان) are the majority Twelver Shi'a Muslim group. They differ from their now much smaller rival Akhbari group in favoring the use of ''ijtihad'' (i.e., reasoning) in the creation of new rules of ''fiq ...
dispute.
See also
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Yusuf Al Bahrani
Yūsuf ibn ʾAḥmad (1695–1772) ( ar, يوسف البحراني) was a Bahraini theologian and a key figure in the intellectual development of Twelver Shia Islam.
Yusuf grew up in Safavid-ruled Bahrain, at a time of intellectual ferment betwee ...
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Salih Al-Karzakani
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Maitham Al Bahrani
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History of Bahrain
Bahrain was a central location of the ancient Dilmun civilization. Bahrain's strategic location in the Arabian Gulf (Omar Ebn Elkhatab gulf) has brought rule and influence from mostly the Persians, Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Portuguese, ...
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Bahrani people
The Baharna ( ar, بحارنة) are the indigenous Shia Muslim inhabitants of Bahrain who inhabited the area before the arrival of Sunni Muslim Arab tribes from Najd, particularly by Banu Utbah in the 18th century which the Bahraini royal fami ...
References
Rival Empires of Trade and Imami Shiism in Eastern Arabia, 1300-1800 Juan Cole
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,
International Journal of Middle East Studies
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See also
* Middle East Research and Information Project
* Association for th ...
, Vol. 19, No. 2, (May, 1987), pp. 177–203
Bahraini Shia clerics
Twelvers
Bahraini Shia Muslims
1675 births
1723 deaths
Bahraini ayatollahs
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