Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi (South Azerbaijani: عبدالرحیم عقیقی بخشایشی, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ʿAqīqī Bakhshāyishī; 1942 – 5 April 2012) was an Iranian Islamic jurist, religious writer, journalist and translator, widely known for his biographies of Twelver Shia scholars.

[1][2][3] Abd al-Rahim bin Hatam Aqiqi Bakhshayishi was born in 1942 in the village of Bakhshayesh in the east of Tabriz to an Iranian Azerbaijani farmer family.

From 1961 he started writing on religious topics in the Persian-language newspapers of that time, such as Neday-e Haq, Wazifeh and Noor Danesh magazine, and wrote his first book in the same year.

He was a member of the faculty of Tehran University and a teacher of Islamic education courses, and obtained a doctorate degree from Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in 1991.

[8] In addition to writing, he also translated from Arabic to Farsi many works, such as: Quran, Nahj al-Balagha, Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, Al-Amali, Makarim al-Akhlaq by al-Tabarsi, Al-Bab al-hadi ashar by al-Hilli, Kanz al-ʻirfān fī fiqh al-Qurʼān by al-Fadil al-Miqdad, Rawz̤at al-shuhadāʼ by Husayn Kashifi etc.