Abdullah al-Samahiji

ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Samāhījī (1675–1722) ({{langx|ar|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.Juan Cole, Sacred Space and Holy War, IB Tauris, 2007 p53 Among his teachers was Sulaymān ibn ʿAbdullāh al Maḥūdhī.Schmidtke, Sabine. "The ijaza from 'Abd Allah b. Salih al-Samahiji to Nasir al-Jarudi al-Qatifi: A Source for the Twelver Shi'i Scholarly Tradition of Bahrayn." Madelung, Wilferd, Farhad Daftar and W Josef Meri. Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam. I.B.Tauris, 2003. 66.

After the 1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain, as Samāhijī fled to Isfahan where he briefly served as the Sheikh ul-Islam.

Andrew J. Newman, [https://www.scribd.com/doc/3729886/ 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, which includes an examination of the Akhbari-Usuli dispute.