Sheikh Rashid bin Fadhel bin Saif bin Fadel bin Mohammed bin Muqbel bin Jumah bin Saif Al Bin Ali ( ar, الشيخ راشد بن فاضل بن سيف بن فاضل بن محمد بن مقبل بن جمعه بن سيف ال بن علي, born in 1877 in
Al Hidd
:''To be distinguished from Ras al Hadd (رأس الحد), a district with a famous turtle breeding beach in Oman''
Al Hidd ( ar, الحد; transliterated: Al-Ḥidd) is a town in Bahrain, located on a sand spit on the southeastern extremity of Muh ...
,
Muharraq Island
Muharraq Island (), formerly known as Moharek, is the second largest island in the archipelago of Bahrain after Bahrain Island. It lies east of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island.
History
It is named after Muharraq City, the former capital ...
,
Bahrain, died in 1960 on Darin Island,
Saudi Arabia) was a
Bahraini author, sailor, and poet who belonged to the
Al Bin Ali dynasty of the eastern
Gulf. He was born in Al Hidd and received his elementary education there before studying
fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and linguistics with a
Moroccan scholar in
Medina. At the age of seventeen, he became a sea captain, and he eventually wrote the famed ''النايلة: مجاري الهداية'' (“Nayla: The Path of Guidance”), a widely consulted guide for early 20th-century sailors in the
Persian Gulf. A notable poet, he was famous for his classical approach to writing history as well, including the seminal ''مجموع الفضائل'' (“Collection of Virtues”), a study of the lineage and history of the local tribes. The last-named book relied on such erudite sources as
Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd
''al-ʿIqd al-Farīd'' (''The Unique Necklace'', ar, العقد الفريد) is an anthology attempting to encompass 'all that a well-informed person had to know in order to pass in society as a cultured and refined individual' (or '' adab''), c ...
, the diary of
Ibn Hisham
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī al-Muʿāfirī al-Baṣrī ( ar, أبو محمد عبدالملك بن هشام ابن أيوب الحميري المعافري البصري; died 7 May 833), or Ibn Hisham, e ...
, ''سبائك الذهب'' (“Gold Bullion”),
Al-Damri’s ''حياة الحيوان'' (“Life of Animals”), and
Abu l-Hasan al-Bakri’s ''فتوح مكة'' (“Conquest of Mecca”).
References
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20th-century sailors
20th-century Bahraini poets
1877 births
1960 deaths
Bahraini sailors