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The Arabic term Wahhabi translates in English to "of Wahhab", meaning "the Bestower", which is one of the names of God in Islam. [7] The word is primarily an exonym and was not used by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab or by his partisans, who called themselves Muwahhidun ("the Unitarians") derived from Tawhid , the central Islamic tenet denoting the ...
The term "Wahhabi" has been deployed by external observers as a pejorative epithet to label a wide range of religious, social and political movements across the Muslim World, ever since the 18th century. [1]
In the 1920s, Sayyid Rashid Rida (d. 1935 C.E/ 1354 A.H), a pioneer Arab Salafist whose periodical al-Manar was widely read in the Muslim world, published an "anthology of Wahhabi treatises", and a work praising the Ibn Saud as "the savior of the Haramayn [the two holy cities] and a practitioner of authentic Islamic rule".
Rohingyas, Muslims Term meaning 'black' in various Indo-Aryan languages, referring to the dark skin colour of South Asian Muslims. The term originally was used by Hindus of India and targeted at all Muslims of South Asia, but more recently is used as a slur directly against Rohingyas due to their perceived Bangladeshi origin. [82]
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sulaymān al-Tamīmī [Note 1] (1703–1792) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher, activist, [12] religious leader, [9] jurist, [13] and reformer, [14] who was from Najd in central Arabia and is considered as the eponymous founder of the Wahhabi movement. [15]
The Ikhwān (Arabic: الإخوان, romanized: al-ʾIkhwān , lit. ' the Brethren '), commonly known as Ikhwān man Aṭāʿa Allāh (Arabic: إخوان من أطاع الله , 'Brethren of those who obey God'), [a] was a Wahhabi religious militia made up of traditionally nomadic tribesmen which formed a significant military force of the ruler Ibn Saud and played an important role ...
To be a Wahhabi is officially a crime in Russia. [7] [8] In Russian aligned Central Asian dictatorships, the term "Wahhabi" is used to refer to any unsanctioned religious activity. As a result, any Sunni Muslim, whether modernist, conservative, political or apolitical, is a potential target. [9]
Following the embargo by Arab oil exporters during the Israeli-Arab October 1973 War and the vast increase in petroleum export revenue that followed, [1] [2] [3] the international propagation of Salafism and Wahhabism within Sunni Islam [4] favored by the conservative oil-exporting Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [1] [5] [6] and other Gulf monarchies achieved a "preeminent position of strength in the ...