Wahhabi
/wəˈhɑːbi
/(also Wahabi)
noun (plural Wahhabis)
A member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–92). It advocates a return to the early Islam of the Koran and Sunna, rejecting later innovations; the sect is still the predominant religious force in Saudi Arabia.He founded the Wahhabi sect of Islam, which is still followed in Saudi Arabia....
- The majority of the citizens and the ruling family are Sunni Muslims, specifically Wahhabis.
- It stays in power through a bargain with the conservative Wahhabi Muslim religious establishment.
Derivatives
Wahhabism
/ noun ...- The ceremony was not officially a state funeral, as the kingdom's strict version of Islam known as Wahhabism stresses the equality of all people in death.
- They largely adhere to a strict version of Sunni Islam commonly known as Wahhabism, which requires a literal reading of the Koran.
- This was a group that emerged in the 1950s from a group of Palestinians and Saudis being very close to Wahhabism, the main Islamic tradition of Saudi Arabia.
Wahhabist
- It's a broad question especially considering that Islamic belief is hardly monolithic (despite the efforts of the Wahhabists to ‘purify’ it).
- A couple of weeks ago, I briefly quoted Lord Byron's thoughts on the fact that the Wahhabists had taken over the holy sites of Islam, from the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, published in 1812.