Biography of muhammad ibn abd al-wahhab

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (1703 – 1792 C.E.) (Arabic:محمد بن عبد الوهاب) was an Arab theologian born in the Najd, in present-day Saudi Arabia and the most famous scholar of what non-members refer to as the Wahhabi movement, properly the Muwahhidun, the Unifiers of Islamic practice, a puritan reformist school.

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Al-Wahhab operated within the context of Muslim response to the increasing influence of Europe and to the subjugation of the Arab world to the non-Arab Ottoman Turks. Al-Wahhab was convinced that Muslims had departed from pure Islam and needed to return to its original beliefs and practices. His interpretation of Islam is also referred to as salafist (the salafa were those early Muslims who were close to Muhammad).

Sufism, or mystical Islam, is regarded as deviant.

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Wahhabi Islam dominates Saudi Arabia, whose petroleum dollars fund Islamic organizations and institutions around the world on the condition that they conform to Wahhabi ideas. Wahhabi Islam is also descri (PDF) Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab: The Man and His Works ... MUCIX