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Wahhabi

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1. Wahhabi - Noun

2. Wahhabi - Adjective

Meaning

Wahhabi (plural Wahhabis)

(Islam) An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).
Synonyms: Wahhabist, Wahhabite
Hyponym: takfiri

Wahhabi (not comparable)

(Islam) Of or pertaining to Wahhabism.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam. Salman Rushdie

After Bahrain received assurance from the Qatar that they would not cooperate with the Wahhabi forces if they crossed into their borders, they sent Ali bin Khalifa to the mainland to act as a collaborator with the local resistance. Source: Internet

Both the Wahhabi Pashtun Ittehad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf backed by Saudi Arabia and the Shia Hazara Hezb-e Wahdat supported by Iran remained involved in heavy fighting against each other. Source: Internet

Hostilities were provoked again after the Bahraini sheikh, in response to the harboring of Bahraini fugitives in Dammam, stopped paying tribute to the Wahhabi amir in 1859 and proceeded to instigate Qatari tribes to attack its subjects. Source: Internet

P63: Following the plunder of Medina in 1810 'when the Prophet's tomb was opened and its jewels and relics sold and distributed among the Wahhabi soldiery'. Source: Internet

He accused Saudi leaders of spending tens of billions of dollars in recent decades in order to export this Wahhabi ideology to the Muslim world and to the world at large. Source: Internet

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