Rashid Al Marikhi

Shaikh Rashid Bin Ibrahim Al Muraikhi (Arabic: الشيخ راشد بن ابراهيم المريخي) is a prominent Sufi Sunni Islamic scholar and teacher in Bahrain. He used to be the khateeb of the Shaikh Isa Bin Ali Mosque in Muharraq until 1988. He has been praised for his role in bridging the Sunni-Shia sectarian divide in Bahrain and has warm relations with Shia scholars in Bahrain. As a leader of the Sufi tradition in Bahrain, he has been a target of criticism by puritanical Salafist activists for participating and endorsing Sufi ceremony such as Al-Maulid Al-Nabawi (the birth of Muhammad) in which he recites poems about the event.

His son, Shaikh Ibrahim Al Muraikhi, is the chief justice of the Supreme Sunni Sharia Court in Bahrain and the president of the Imam Malik ibn Anas Society. The Imam Malik Society is the only registered Sufi organization in Bahrain.

Among Shaikh Rashid's published works is Raf' al-Astar 'an Shubuhat wa Dalalat Sahib al- Hiwar ("Exposing the Insinuations and Aggravations of the Author of the 'Debate with al-Maliki").

Among his teachers are Shaikh Mohammed Al Hijazi of Muharraq, Shaikh Mohammed Abil Mulla of al-Hasa, Shaikh Abbas Bin Alawi Al Maliki of Mecca (brother of Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki), and Shaikh Abdul Qadir Al Saggaf [1] of Jeddah.

References

• Spreading the message of love, Gulf Daily News, 12 July 2009
• Sufi clerics plan German pilgrimage, Gulf Daily News, 12 July 2009
• أكد أنهم أولى بالسلف من غيرهم... شيخ الصوفية في البحرين راشد المريخي: //البحرين - Al Wasat, 7 October 2008
• مبادرات المريخي... أم بيانات السعيدي؟ Al Wasat, 18 October 2008
• Advice to Our Brothers the Ulema of Najd - Yusuf al-Rifa`i'
• شيخ الصوفية ينفي الاحتفالات المختلطة بين الرجال والنساء - Al Arabiya - 1 July 2007
• Imam Malik Society

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Muslim scholars of the Maliki School

• by century (AH
• CE)

2nd/8th

• Malik ibn Anas (founder of the school; 711–795)
• Ali ibn Ziyad (d. 799)
• Ibn Wahb (743–813)
• Ibn al-Qasim

3rd/9th

• Asad ibn al-Furat (759–828)
• Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (d. 848)
• Sahnun (d. 854/55)
• Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Zuhri (767–856)
• Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam (801–871)

4th/10th

• Abu al-Arab (d. 945)
• Ibn Abi Zayd (922–996)
• Al-Baqillani (950–1013)
• Sidi Mahrez (951–1022)
• Qadi 'Abd al-Wahhab (973–1035)
• Abu Imran al-Fasi (d. 1039)

5th/11th

• Ibn 'Abd al-Barr (d. 1071)
• Al-Baji (1013–1081)
• Al-Lakhmi (1006–1085)
• Al-Lamti

6th/12th

• At-Turtushi (1059–1126)
• Al-Maziri (1061–1141)
• Ibn Barrajan (d. 1141)
• Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi (1076–1148)
• Qadi Ayyad (1083–1149)
• Al-Suhayli (1114–1185)
• Averroes (1126–1198)
• Al-Tamimi (d. 1207/08)

7th/13th

• Al-Qattan (d. 1231)
• Al-Azafi (1162–1236)
• Ibn al-Hajib (d. 1249)
• Al-Qurtubi (1214–1273)
• Al-Qarafi (1228–1285)
• Ibn Ata Allah (1259–1310)
• Al-Zarwili (d. 1319)
• Ibn Rushayd (1259–1321)

8th/14th

• Ibn al-Haj (d. 1336)
• Ibn Juzayy (d. 1340)
• Khalil ibn-Ishaq (d. 1365)
• Ibn Marzuq (d. 1379)
• Ash-Shatibi (1320–1388)
• Ibn Farhun (d. 1397)
• Ibn 'Arafa (1316–1401)
• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)
• Al-Sakkak (d. 1415)
• Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi (1373–1429)

9th/15th

• Ibn Faïd (1394–1453)
• Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi (1384–1479)
• Ibn al-Azraq (1427–1491)
• Ahmad Zarruq (1442–1493)
• Ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi (d. 1497/98)

10th/16th

• Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq (d. 1506/07)
• Al-Wansharisi (d. 1508)
• Ibn Abi Jum'ah (d. 1511)
• Al-Miknasi (1437–1513)
• Al-Hattab (1497–1547)
• Al-Akhdari (1512–1575)
• Al-Mandjur (1520–1587)
• Al-Tamgruti (d. 1594/95)

11th/17th

• Ibn Ashir (1582–1631)
• Al-Laqani (d. 1631)
• Mayyara (1591–1662)
• Al-Dila'i (d. 1678)
• Al-Qadir al-Fasi (1599–1680)
• Al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631–1685)
• Az-Zurqani (1611–1688)
• Muhammad al-Zurqani (1645–1710)

12th/18th

• Ibn al-Tayyib (1698–1756)
• Al-Bannani (1727–1780)
• Ad-Dardir (1715–1786)
• M'Hamed Al-Azhari (d. 1793/94)
• Al-Tawudi ibn Suda (1700–1795)
• Al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (d. 1800)

13th/19th

• Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba (1747–1809)
• Ad-Desouki (d. 1815)
• Usman dan Fodio (1754–1817)
• Al-Hajj al-Fasi (1760–1817)
• Abdullahi dan Fodio (1766–1829)
• Muhammad 'Ilish (1802–1882)
• Al Alawi (d. 1888)
• Salim al-Bishri (1832–1916)
• Ahmed Harrak Srifi (d. 1925)
• Ahmed Skirej (1878–1944)

14th/20th

• Muhammad al-'Arabi al-Tabbani (1897–1970)
• Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour (1909–1970)
• Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur (1879–1973)
• Muhammad ibn 'Alawi al-Maliki (1944–2004)

15th/21st

• Othman Battikh (1941–2022)
• Abdallah bin Bayyah (b. 1935)
• Ahmed el-Tayeb (b. 1946)
• Ahmad Karima (b. 1951)
• Hamza Yusuf (b. 1958)
• Muhammad al-Yaqoubi (b. 1963)
• Rashid Al Marikhi

Scholars of other Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence

• Hanafi
• Hanbali
• Shafi'i
• Zahiri