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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".
Wahhab (Arabic: وَهَّابُ, romanized: Wahhāb) is an Arabic word meaning "Bestower", from the root W-H-B. Al-Wahhab (Arabic: ٱلْوَهَّابُ, romanized: al-Wahhāb), meaning "The Bestower" is one of the attributes of God in Islam. It is also used as a personal name, as a short form of Abd al-Wahhab (servant of the Bestower). [1]
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 ...
Abdul Wahhab (Arabic: عبد الوهاب, romanized: ʻAbd al-Wahhāb) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and al-Wahhāb, one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. [1] [2] It means "servant of the all-giver".
They consider that Muslims who believe that saints and their shrines have holy properties are polytheists and heretics. In 1802, Wahhabi forces partially destroyed the shrine of Imam Husayn . [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In 1925, the commander and later-king of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Ibn Saud , destroyed the manmade structures in Jannat al-Baqīʿ in Medina ...