Wahhabism

Proper noun

Meaning

Wahhabism (uncountable)

(Islam) A Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703–1792), followed primarily in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

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Examples

History of Wahhabism and Salafism This false binary has been echoed by key Iranian and Shia figures to justify support for Bashar al-Assad. Source: Internet

Both are now in Salafi seminaries and he wants the elder one to study at the Islamic University of Madinah where Wahhabism is taught. Source: Internet

One dominant strand to the Saudi identity pertains directly to Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism), and the use to which his radical, exclusionist puritanism was put by Ibn Saud. Source: Internet

It focuses on the origins, motivations and interactions of four key actors: U.S. imperialism, secular Arab nationalism, the political Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood and its terrorist offshoots, and Saudi-sponsored Wahhabism. Source: Internet

The root of the “Houthi problem” in Yemen is marginalisation coupled with resentment at encroaching Wahhabism. Source: Internet

"Wahhabism is the closest religious cognate." Source: Internet

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