title: Ghuraifa
text: # Ghuraifa
  
  Ghuraifa (Arabic: الغريفة) is a village in Bahrain that has now been subsumed into 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 Allaedin Ghoraifi of Najaf
  * Senior Bahraini cleric Abdullah al Ghuraifi
  * Kamaleddin Ghuraifi, the assassinated representative of Ayatollah Sistani in Baghdad.
  
  The village lies west of the United States Naval Support Activity Bahrain base, and south of the Bahrain School.
  
  