Wahhabi

NOUN
  1. a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam
    Osama bin Laden is said to be a Wahhabi Muslim
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How To Use Wahhabi In A Sentence

  • Religious leaders in the Wahhabi form of Islam - which makes up the majority of the country - require complete separation of members of the opposite sex who are not related.
  • Mujahideen warlordism, Deobandi Wahhabism and Western-style centralized democracy are not concepts indigenous to Afghanistan but have been imported from the aforementioned "dealmakers". Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance
  • Others fled to Saudi Arabia where they were influenced by Wahhabism, a branch within Sunni Islam that is considered extremist even by many Sunni and Shia Muslims.
  • The ulema are the Muslim clerics who define the Wahhabi faith, a rigid form of Islam which predominates in Saudi Arabia.
  • Qatar explicitly uses Wahhabi law as the basis of its government, and the vast majority of its citizens follow this specific Islamic doctrine.
  • This is the best proof of the invalidity of the argument that so-called ‘Wahhabism’ is subversive to others.
  • The influence of puritan interpreters of Islam reaches into the mosques across the country where Salafi and Wahhabi imams preach.
  • Islam defines identity, Wahhabism inspires global ambitions, oil wealth funds the enterprise.
  • The influence of puritan interpreters of Islam reaches into the mosques across the country where Salafi and Wahhabi imams preach.
  • But while there is no prospect of a Saudi revolution in anyone's near future, there are encouraging signs that even there, a country that for decades has toiled under the crushing medievalism of Wahhabist religious orthodoxy, change is coming. An Arab Spring in Their Step
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