Abdullah al-Samahiji

ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Samāhījī (1675–1722) (Arabic: عبد الله بن صالح السماهيجي) was a Bahraini Shia Islamic scholar who lived during the Safavid period. He was born in the village of Samaheej on Muharraq Island, and like many of his Bahraini contemporaries, he was a follower of the Akhbari theological school—although his father was a pure Usuli who detested Akhbaris.^[1] Among his teachers was Sulaymān ibn ʿAbdullāh al Maḥūdhī.^[2]

After the 1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain, as Samāhijī fled to Isfahan where he briefly served as the Sheikh ul-Islam.^[3] He then settled in Behbehan where he died in 1722.

Among his works is Munyat al Mumārisīn in Arabic, which includes an examination of the Akhbari-Usuli dispute.