Sheikh Maytham Al Salman, Head of Religious Freedom Unit in the Bahrain Human Rights Monitor (BHRM), said the Maitham al-Bahrani mosque on the Southern outskirts of Bahrain has come under attack.
He said Sunday that unknown assailants attacked the mosque and looted some equipment there, after causing damage to the worshiping site.
Activists have repeatedly blamed the Bahraini regime for such attacks.
Since mid-February 2011, when antigovernment protests erupted in Bahrain, Saudi-backed regime forces demolished over two dozen mosques in their crackdown on Bahrainis.
According to local sources, more than 110 people have been killed and thousands arrested so far during the regime clampdown on peaceful demonstrations.
Manama forces have also destroyed 18 mourning halls since the start of the revolution.
Who was Maitham al-Bahrani?
Kamal al-Deen Maitham bin Ali bin Maitham al-Bahrani (1238 – 1299), commonly known as Sheikh Maitham Al Bahrani (also spelt Maytham al-Bahrani) was a leading 13th Century Twelver Bahrani theologian, author and philosopher. Al Bahrani wrote on Twelver doctrine, affirmed free will, the infallibility of prophets and imams, the appointed imamate of `Ali, and the occultation of the Twelfth Imam. Along with Kamal al-Din Ibn Sa’adah al Bahrani, Jamal al-Din ‘Ali ibn Sulayman al-Bahrani, Maytham Al Bahrani was part of a 13th century Bahrain school of theology that emphasised rationalism.
At the same time, Maytham Al Bahrani was profoundly influenced by the disciplines of philosophy and mysticism. He wrote widely on such theology related philosophical issues as epistimology and ontology.
Al Bahrani's scholarship took in both Imami and Sunni sources