Wahhabi
Wahhabi (Arabic: Al-Wahhābīyya الوهابية) or Wahhabism is the conservative form of Sunni Islam practised in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. People think Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, an 18th century scholar, started this belief. He wanted to see a return to the practices of the first three generations of Islamic history.
Some definitions or uses of the term Wahhabi Islam include:
- "a corpus of doctrines, but also a set of attitudes and behavior, derived from the teachings of a particularly severe religious reformist who lived in central Arabia in the mid-eighteenth century". Gilles Kepel.[1]
- "pure Islam that does not deviate from Sharia law in any way and should be called Islam and not Wahhabism". Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, the governor of the Saudi capital Riyadh.[2][3]
- "a misguided creed that fosters intolerance, promotes simplistic theology, and restricts Islam's capacity for adaption to diverse and shifting circumstances". David Commins, paraphrasing opponents' definition.[3]
Wahhabi Media
An 18th century map of the Arabian Peninsula circa. 1740s
Portrait of a Wahhabi musketeer of Emirate of Diriyah
Photo of Ahl-i Hadith scholar Siddiq Hasan Khan, who taught numerous religious students from the Emirate of Nejd under his tutelage in the Bhopal State
Salafi scholar Muhammad Rashid Rida (Arabic: محمد رشيد رضا; 1282 – 1354 A.H) made vital contributions in the rehabilitation of Wahhabism across the Arab World during the early 20th-century
Muwahhidun (Wahhabi) movement is highly influenced by the doctrines of the classical Hanbali theologian Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328 C.E/ 728 A.H)
Portrait of two Saudi soldiers on horseback, 1848
Soldiers of the third Saudi State, 1920s
Photo of a marketplace in the town of Al-Hasa circa. 1922
Open air mosque in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Fath al-Majid (Divine Triumph); an explanatory treatise on Kitab al-Tawhid (Book on Monotheism) by 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hassan Aal ash-Shaykh (1780–1868 C.E)
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Related pages
Other websites
- Wahhabism -Citizendium
References
- ↑ Kepel, Gilles (2004). The war for Muslim minds. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780674015753.
- ↑ Mahdi, Wael (March 18, 2010). "There is no such thing as Wahabism, Saudi prince says". The National. http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/there-is-no-such-thing-as-wahabism-saudi-prince-says. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Commins, David (2009). The Wahhabi mission and Saudi Arabia. I.B.Tauris. pp. viv.
While Wahhabism claims to represent Islam in its purest form, other Muslims consider it a misguided creed that fosters intolerance, promotes simplistic theology, and restricts Islam's capacity for adaption to diverse and shifting circumstances.
