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	Wahhabism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wahhabis do not follow any specific maddhab (method or school of jurisprudence), but mostly interpret the words of the prophet Muhammad directly, using the four maddhab for reference.
		Wahhabis ban pictures, photographs, and celebrating Muhammad's birthday, among many other things, based on their interpretation of the ahadith.
		Some Wahhabis believe that many Muslim Brotherhood scholars — Sayyid Qutb and Yusuf al-Qaradawi are sometimes cited — are corrupted due to their innovations in Islam, and their call to revolution and rebellion against the rulers of Muslim countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wahhabi (1010 words)

	Wahhabi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Accordingly, Wahhabi mosques are simple and without minarets, and the adherents dress plainly and do not smoke tobacco or hashish.
		The domain thereafter steadily weakened; Riyadh was lost in 1884, and in 1889 the Saud family fled for refuge into the neighboring state of Kuwait.
		The Wahhabi movement was to enjoy its third triumph when Ibn Saud advanced from his capture of Riyadh in 1902 to the reconstitution in 1932 of nearly all his ancestral domain under the name Saudi Arabia, where it remains dominant.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wa/Wahhabi.html (356 words)

	Wahhabi
		Mahommed ibn 'Abd ul-Wahhab was born in 1691 (or 1703) at al-Hauta of the Nejd in central Arabia, and was of the tribe of the Bani Tamim.
		By rejecting the validity of reinterpretation, Wahhabi doctrine is at odds with the Muslim reformation movement of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		Wahhabi influence in Saudi Arabia, however, remained tangible in the physical conformity in dress, in public deportment, and in public prayer.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/gulf/wahhabi.htm (2432 words)

	The Wahhabi Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wahhabis in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries went on an uncompromising campaign against Sufis, Shiites, and all others deemed unfaithful to the Wahhabis' strict interpretation of the sunna ("custom") of the Prophet Muhammad.
		The Ottoman Turks became alarmed and dispatched Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman ruler of Egypt, to challenge the Wahhabis in 1811.
		Wahhabi translations of the sayings of Ibn Taymiyya were distributed in Egypt and used by extremist members of the Jihad organization there to justify the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 (see Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2002), 72 and 86f.).
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/wahhabi_movement.htm (766 words)

	Saudi Arabia - Wahhabi Theology
		The endurance of the Wahhabi movement's influence may be attributed to the close association between the founder of the movement and the politically powerful Al Saud in southern Najd.
		A century earlier, in l802, Wahhabi fighters raided and damaged one of the most sacred Shia shrines, the tomb of Husayn, the son of Imam Ali and grandson of the Prophet, at Karbala in Iraq.
		The Wahhabi movement in Najd was unique in two respects: first, the ulama of Najd interpreted the Quran and sunna very literally and often with a view toward reinforcing parochial Najdi practices; second, the political and religious leadership exercised its collective political will to enforce conformity in behavior.
	www.countrystudies.us /saudi-arabia/27.htm (1793 words)

	The Wahhabi Fifth Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Saudi-supplied textbooks at this and other Wahhabi schools state that Muslims are obliged to consider all infidels the enemy.
		Wahhabi schools in America are notorious for doctoring maps of the Middle East, and hanging them in classrooms - with Israel blotted out.
		Far more troubling is the ease with which the Wahhabis use religion as a means to express and stoke violent impulses.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=5270 (1450 words)

	Wahhabism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wahhabis practice an extreme form of Puritanism; they limit themselves to simple short prayers, worship in undecorated mosques where even the name of the Prophet cannot be inscribed, and refuse to celebrate his birthday.
		Their subsequent domain steadily weakened; nonetheless, a third triumph came for the Wahhabi movement when Ibn Saud advanced from his capture of Riyadh in 1902 to the reconstitution in 1932 of nearly all his ancestral domain under the name Saudi Arabia, where Wahhabism remains dominant to this day.
		Wahhabi theology and jurisprudence is based respectively on the teachings of Ibn Taymiyah and on the legal school of Ahmad ibn Hanbal; they stress literal belief in the Quran and Hadith and the establishment of a Muslim state based solely on Islamic law.
	www.meta-religion.com /Extremism/Islamic_extremism/wahhabism.htm (1440 words)

	Bahrain - WAHHABI ISLAM AND THE GULF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Wahhabis became known for a fanaticism similar to that of the early Kharijites.
		As a result, Wahhabi beliefs motivated Al Thani efforts to resist the attempt of the Al Khalifa, who rejected Wahhabism, to gain control of the peninsula.
		Wahhabi fervor was also significant in the history of the present-day UAE.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-1018.html (582 words)

	Wahhabism, Wahhabiyyah, Muwahhidun, Wahhabi
		Wahhabi teachings have also played a role in the 19th century history of parts of Nigeria, India, and Indonesia.
		The Wahhabis claim to base their doctrines on the teachings of the fourteenth century scholar Ibn Taymiyya and the rulings of the Hanbali school of law, the strictest of the four recognised in the Sunni consensus.
		A remnant of the Wahhabi movement survived in a pocket of Central Arabia.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txo/wahhabis.htm (842 words)

	Q&A with Stephen Schwartz on Wahhabism on National Review Online
		Wahhabi aggression was defeated in Algeria and Tajikistan.
		Wahhabi infiltration continues in Chechnya, to the detriment of the just struggle of the Chechens against Russian imperialism, and in Kashmir, where it is an obstacle to resolution of the conflict.
		Wahhabi hatemongering institutions like the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America (IIASA), in Fairfax, Va. and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) in Alexandria, Va., as well as the U.S. office of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), should be shut down completely.
	www.nationalreview.com /interrogatory/interrogatory111802.asp (2689 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: An Activist's Guide to Arab and Muslim Campus and Community Organizations in North America by ...
		For Wahhabis everywhere, the party line is laid down in Riyadh, which simultaneously foments terrorist teaching and disclaims any responsibility for Wahhabi atrocities, as in the case of Bin Laden.
		Although its Islam is Wahhabi, it sought to represent all Muslims in their relations with America as if practicing religious diplomacy comparable to that of the Vatican, the worldwide center of the Catholic Church.
		The Wahhabi lobby understood and exploited the fact that the gullibility and ignorance of ordinary Americans and the essential openness of American democracy could all be manipulated for ends totally at odds with the traditions, laws, and policies of the United States.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7991 (10050 words)

	Wahhabi on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A resounding voice in traditional Islam: Sheik Muhammad Hisham Kabbani is a vocal opponent of Saudi extremist Wahhabi Islam, which he says has infected many Muslim institutions in the United States.
		`Wahhabi Lobby' takes the offensive: radical Islamists take a page from the KGB's playbook and try to shape U.S. policy by politically manipulating policymakers with a well-funded influence campaign.
		This business all began in Saudi Arabia Stephen Schwartz traces the roots of terror to the Wahhabi, the extremist sect founded in the 18th century which inspires the actions of bin Laden and other f
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/wahhabi.asp (595 words)

	Middle East Report 204: A Clash of Fundamentalisms: Wahhabism in Yemen, by Shelagh Weir
		The Wahhabis accused the sayyids of blocking access to the "truths" of Sunni doctrine, of propagating superstitious beliefs and practices and of perpetuating social stratification by asserting their divinely-sanctioned social superiority.
		Wahhabis made a point of attending Zaydi mosques and, while the majority of the congregation resolutely adhered to the customary Zaydi prayer stance with arms extended, the Wahhabis provocatively prayed in the Sunni manner, folding their arms during the prayer sequence, and, contrary to the Zaydi practice, chanting "amin" (like the Christian "amen").
		This tense situation reached a bloody climax with the murder of the son of the leading Wahhabi on the eve of `Id al-Ghadir--a shockingly dishonorable crime by tribal standards, because it was disproportionate to the provocation.
	www.merip.org /mer/mer204/weir.htm (1838 words)

	Intra-Muslim Rivalries in India and the Saudi Connection: Free Muslims Coalition
		While the Deobandis were careful to insist that they were not 'Wahhabis' in the sense of being followers of Muhammad bin 'Abdul Wahhab, some Deobandis, recognising the commitment that they shared with the Saudi 'Wahhabis' to the extirpation of what they regarded as bida'ah, accepted the label 'Wahhabi' in that limited sense.
		Likewise, Yusuf Kandhalavi, son and successor of the founder of the Tablighi Jama'at, Ilyas Kandhalavi, declared, 'We are staunch Wahhabis'.
		Thus, the fact that, in contrast to the 'Wahhabis', the Deobandis believe in the legitimacy of Sufism, although of a shari'ah-minded sort, and that they insist on the need for taqlid of one of the four generally accepted schools of Sunni jurisprudence, was conveniently ignored.
	www.freemuslims.org /news/article.php?article=270 (16680 words)

	WAHHABISM - Wahhabis Fighting in Iraq? (The 'Wahhabi' Myth) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wahhabi mosques, funded by Saudi wealth, are becoming centres of opposition to America."
		Specifying the alleged role of the "Wahhabis" in the recent spate of bombings and guerrilla style attacks in Iraq, Gedye states: "Of particular concern to America is the attraction of Wahhabism, an austere form of Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia, which is gaining a foothold in Iraq.
		The Qutbists are opposed to the creed and scholars of Salafism/"Wahhabism," such that the extremists from amongst them even expel the "Wahhabi" scholars from the fold of Islam.
	www.thewahhabimyth.com /wahhabis-fighting-in-iraq.htm (988 words)

	Saudi Arabia and the Rise of the Wahhabi Threat - Middle East Forum
		In his novel Anastasius, he described Wahhabi agents in words that will be strikingly familiar to modern readers: as extremist puritans bent on dominating the Muslim world by adopting tactics reminiscent of Al-Qaeda's calculated savagery.
		The theological and political pact between the Saud clan and the Wahhabists resulted in the fall of Mecca for the second and last time in 1924, solidifying their grip on power.
		After the conquest of Mecca, the vast oil wealth of the kingdom would be used to export a radical Wahhabist ideology across the globe.
	www.meforum.org /article/535 (990 words)

	United Press International - International(p) - Analysis: Scared of Wahhabi assassins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wahhabis, a puritanical sect that originated in present-day Saudi Arabia in the 18th century, have traditionally not been part of the religious scene in Iraq.
		While a prominent Wahhabi cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Saalih al-'Uthatmeen, condemned terrorist outrages such as suicide bombings, saying their perpetrators would go to hell, the tradition of Wahhabi violence has a history of almost a quarter of a millennium.
		In "The Wahhabi Movement," historian Ted Thornton reminded his readers that in their zeal Wahhabis even once declared holy war on fellow Muslims, an act expressly forbidden by the Koran.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040426-041520-5592r (952 words)

	Stephen Schwartz on Wahhabism & Islam in the U.S. on National Review Online
		The Wahhabi ideological structure in Saudi Arabia perceived this as an opportunity to fill a gap — to gain dominance over an Islamic community in the West with immense potential for political and social influence.
		Rather, Wahhabi control over mosques means control of property, buildings, appointment of imams, training of imams, content of preaching — including faxing of Friday sermons from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —; and of literature distributed in mosques and mosque bookstores, notices on bulletin boards, and organizational solicitation.
		Wahhabi ideological control within Saudi Arabia is based on the historic compact of intermarriage between the family of the sect's originator, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and the family of the founding ruler, Ibn Saud.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-schwartz063003.asp (1693 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Wahhabi Threat To Islam
		It is long past time for Muslims to question the Wahhabi ideology that is pulling the rug out from under Saudi life, for it is that same ideology that has been involved in militant movements throughout the Muslim world for years.
		It was there in shopping malls patrolled by morality police ready to arrest shopkeepers who didn't close their stores for prayer time and it was there in the grim Friday evening news tally of the day's public beheadings.
		Wahhabi militants operate in that chasm between the mind-set that bans flowers for the sick and life as we know it in 2004.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A17037-2004Jun4?language=printer (701 words)

	Russia: Dagestan's Religious Tensions- Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Wahhabi movement united the Arabian tribes in the 18th century and later, in the early 20th century, provided the foundations for the modern state of Saudi Arabia.
		While some people may be willing to accept Wahhabi interpretations of Islamic duty others are, and have been, satisfied with the religion the way it has been practiced in their region or even village for years, if not centuries.
		For heads of state, it is equally disturbing that Wahhabis reject secular forms of government, and this group is among the first mentioned in republican press as potentially disruptive, though no state has yet gone so far as to ban Wahhabi activities.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/dstanpannier1905.html (743 words)

	THE WAHHABI AL SAUD CRIME FAMILY
		From 1924-1926 the Wahhabi al-Saud tribe conquered the western Arabian province of Hejaz with its Holy Cities of Islam -- Mecca and Medina -- from the Bani HaShem (Hashemite) dynasty.
		On the contrary, Wahhabis rejoice in death, suicide and mass murder.
		Wahhabis cannot be bought with bribes or material goodies, of the kind that Western power holders ("elites") are accustomed to bestowing on Third World puppets, and through which they maintain control over those puppets.
	www.afsi.org /COMMENTARY/wahhabi1.htm (1075 words)

	Wahhabism - religious cults, sects and movements
		Throughout its history, the Wahhabis have fiercely opposed anything they viewed as bida, an Arabic word, usually muttered like a curse, for any change or modernization that deviates from the fundamental teachings of the Koran.
		The ferocity with which the Wahhabis fight for their cause is legend.
		Today Wahhabis extol the purist state ruled by the Taliban as one that subscribes to their vision, and they would seek to replicate it.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /w14.html (1102 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source
		Wahhabi leaders denounce other Islamic groups, such as Shi'ite and political Islamist figures like Sheikh Yassine, the leader of the popular and extremely conservative Islamist organization Justice and Charity, once believed to be the main Islamist threat by the Moroccan regime.
		Radical Wahhabi theorists started to spread their call for jihad in clandestine mosques, which escaped the control of local authorities, denouncing oriented prayers in state-controlled mosques as well as the religious status of the king, the highest religious authority in the country, once believed by many to be rampart against radical Islam.
		Confirming this point, Darif claims that the urgency today is to prevent the Wahhabi ideology from spreading locally; but this will require a dialogue with all the religious actors of the country, especially Yassine's unofficial yet rooted Islamist organization, he says.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/FD16Aa01.html (1278 words)

	Principles of the Wahhabi sect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Wahhabi" is the name most Western scholars apply to a Muslim puritan movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab in 18th-century Arabia.
		The Wahhabi prefer to call themselves "Salafi,'' meaning "forefathers'' or "pioneers,'' a reference to their belief that they are promulgating the Islam of Muhammad.
		In the 20th century, Wahhabi religious leaders accepted radio as a means of spreading Islam, but at least initially rejected television as a corrupting medium.
	www.rickross.com /reference/islamic/islamic46.html (219 words)

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