Ghuraifa

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Coordinates: 26°12′20″N 50°36′07″E / 26.20549°N 50.60200°E / 26.20549; 50.60200 Ghuraifa (Arabic: الغريفة‎) was a village in Bahrain that has now been subsumed in to the Juffair suburb of Manama, Bahrain. Its Bahraini inhabitants are Baharna Shia. The village and its descendants have produced a number of prominent Twelver clerics, including:

• Grand Ayatollah Alaeddin Al Ghuraifi of Najaf
• Senior Bahraini cleric Abdullah al Ghuraifi
• Kamaleddin Ghuraifi, the assassinated representative of Ayatollah Sistani in Baghdad.

The village lies west of the U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain base, and south of the Bahrain School.

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