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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 ...
An Islamic university in Medina created in 1961 to train – mostly non-Saudi – proselytizers to Wahhabism [154] became "a haven" for Muslim Brother refugees from Egypt. [155] The Brothers' ideas eventually spread throughout the kingdom and had great effect on Wahhabism – although observers differ as to whether this was by "undermining" it ...
Wahhabi movement of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab was only one of the various Salafi movements and has different strands within itself; Using the term "Wahhabism" suggests a monopolistic mentality that distinguishes between "true Islam" and a wrong version, eroding the ability to envision "religious pluralism".
[173] [174] Furthermore, Wahhabism has been accused of causing disunity in the Muslim community (Ummah) and criticized for its followers' destruction of many Islamic, cultural, and historical sites associated with the early history of Islam and the first generation of Muslims (Muhammad's family and his companions) in Saudi Arabia.
In Central Asia the label "Wahhabism" has evolved from its original meaning of followers of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, to become 'agitprop invective' and a ‘polemic foil in sectarian arguments' used by authoritarian governments against Islamic "reformists and ‘troublesome Muslim opponents’", or even against "any and all expressions of ...
Kitab at-Tawheed (Arabic: كتاب التوحيد) (Book of Monotheism) is a Sunni book about Islamic monotheism in the Athari school of thought. The book is the primary source for Wahhabi beliefs on monotheism. The book was written by the Hanbali scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.
In Dagestan "Wahhabi" is the term used by most Dagestanis, although practitioners prefer the term "Sunni" Muslims. [160] While Islam arrived in Dagestan in the late Middle Ages as Sufi Islam "infused with local customs", Salafists began to have an impact by way of Afghanistan after the Soviet Union crumbled in the late 1980s [161] The Sufi ...
The book describes the history of the heretical tenets of Wahhabism in Najd and the Hijaz and the tortures of the Wahhabis inflicted upon Muslims; in which Dahlan exposed and refuted some of what he saw and witnessed from the Wahhabi extreme and terrorist acts and crimes besides their radical beliefs and misguidance in aqidah (Islamic creed). [3]