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Wahhabism (Arabic : ﺍﻟﻮﻫﺎﺑﻴﺔ , romanized : al-Wahhābiyyah ) is a Sunni
revivalist and fundamentalist movement associated with the reformist
doctrines of the 18th-century Arabian Islamic scholar , theologian ,
preacher , and activist Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703–1792). [1]
[2][3][4] He established the Muwahhidun movement in the region of Najd
in central Arabia , [5][6][7][8] a reform movement with a particular
emphasis on purging practices such as the veneration of Muslim saints
and pilgrimages to their tombs and shrines, which were widespread
amongst the people of Najd. [9][10][11] Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab and his
followers were highly inspired by the influential thirteenth-century
Hanbali scholar Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328 C.E/ 661 – 728 A.H) who
called for a return to the purity of the first three generations (Salaf )
to rid Muslims of inauthentic outgrowths (bidʻah), and regarded his
works as core scholarly references in theology. [12][13][14] While being
influenced by their Hanbali doctrines, the movement repudiated Taqlid to
legal authorities, including oft-cited scholars such as Ibn Taymiyya and
Ibn Qayyim (d. 1350 C.E/ 751 A.H). [15
