Jarwan ibn Nasser al-Maliki

Jarwan ibn Nasser al-Maliki, called Jarwan I, founded the Jarwanid dynasty of Shiite Arabs in fourteenth-century Eastern Arabia. From the port of Qatif he seized power over the Bahrain region, driving out the forces of Sa'id ibn Mughamis, chief of the Muntafiq tribe based at Basra.

Contemporary authors describe the Jarwanids as rawafid, Shia who rejected the first three caliphs, and mosques under their rule followed the Shia form of prayer. The dynasty he founded fell to the Jabrids in the fifteenth century.