Abdullah al-Madani

Journalist and member of both the Constitutional Assembly and the National Assembly in Bahrain.

A religiously trained Shiʿite, Abdullah al-Madani represented a rural district in Bahrain. He was elected to the Constitutional Assembly in 1972 and 1973. In both assemblies, he was the leader of the conservative (Shiʿa) religious bloc - the other two blocs being the bourgeois nationalists and the reformists (leftists). During his service, he started a weekly magazine, al-Mawaqif, which he edited and published. He was conservative on social-Islamic issues but liberal on political issues. His editorials in al-Mawaqif probably made him some enemies; he was assassinated in the late 1970s.

Bibliography

Nakhleh, Emile A. Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1976.

— EMILE A. NAKHLEH