Look at Wahhabism instead:
Wahhabism (Arabic: وهابية, Wahhābiya(h))
or Wahhabi mission[1] (/wəˈhɑːbi, wɑː-/;[2] Arabic: الدعوة
الوهابية, ad-Da'wa
al-Wahhābiya(h) ) is a religious movement or branch of Sunni
Islam.[3][4][5][6] It has been variously described as
"orthodox", "ultraconservative",[7] and "austere."[3] Critics say that Wahhabism's rigidity has
led it to misinterpret and distort Islam, pointing to extremists such as Osama bin
Laden's Al
Qaeda network
and the Taliban. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also draws on Wahhabism for its
ideology.[8]Wahhabism's
explosive growth began in the 1970s when Saudi charities started funding Wahhabi
schools (madrasas) and mosquesfrom Islamabad to Culver
City, California. It has been described as
"fundamentalist",[9] and "puritanical"[10] or "puritan".[11] It has also been described as an Islamic
"reform movement" to restore "pure monotheistic worship" (tawhid), by scholars and advocates[12] and as an "extremist pseudo-Sunni movement"
by opponents.[13] Adherents often object to the terms
"Wahhabi" and "Wahhabism" as derogatory, and prefer to be called Salafi or Muwahhid.[14][15][16]
The name Wahhabism stems from the eighteenth-century preacher
and scholar, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792).[17] He started a revivalist
movement in the
remote, sparsely populated region of Najd,[18] advocating a purging of practices such as
the popular "cult of saints", and shrine and tomb visitation, widespread
among Muslims, but which he considered idolatry, impurities and innovations in Islam.[5][19] Eventually he formed a pact with a local
leader Muhammad bin
Saud offering
political obedience and promising that protection and propagation of the Wahhabi
movement would mean "power and glory" and rule of "lands and men."[20] The movement centers on the principle of
tawhid,[21] or the "uniqueness" and "unity" of God.[19] The movement also draws from the teachings
of medieval theologian Ibn
Taymiyyah and
early jurist Ahmad ibn
Hanbal.[22] Wiki.
