Wahhabism
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- noun
- /wɑːˈhɑːbɪzəm/
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wahabismo
- Saudi Islam and virulently anti-Shiite Wahhabism greatly influenced the brand of Islam popularized in Pakistan during the last decade.
- Saudi Wahhabism
- version of Wahhabism
- extreme version of Wahhabism
Examples
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Egyptians have to wake up to the fact that Saudi Wahhabism is being exported big time to Egypt and the region.
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As such, it is unlikely that Wahhabism could gain a toehold in places other than the Fergana Valley.
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However, I do feel Wahhabism has played a major role.
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Saudi Arabia is the home base of Wahhabism, the source of the 9/11 terrorists.
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Qatar is now becoming a big hotbed of Wahhabism.
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But Osama bin Laden and Wahhabism are hardly the only examples of "political Islam" that have major implications for U.S. security.
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Wahhabism, which has provided much of the theological oxygen for al-Qaeda, is still dominant in Saudi Arabia and has been exported to Sunni communities internationally.
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As a state ideology backed by seemingly endless petro-dollars, Wahhabism has been exported throughout the Muslim world.
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The conservative Saudi Arabian strand of Islam, known as Wahhabism, has been growing in the Maldives for decades.
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In Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism plays a significant role in shaping the country's religious and political landscape.
Synonyms
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A group of Muslims who want to follow how the first Muslims lived and strict religious rules
A group within Sunni Islam that wants to follow the practices of the earliest Muslims and oppose new religious practices
Surface Forms
Morphology
Wahhabism = Wahhab (transparent) = Wahhab + ism
Formed by attaching the productive English suffix '-ism' to the proper name Wahhab, yielding the ideology/movement associated with him, which is directly derivable from the base and the suffix.
Etymology
The word Wahhabism comes from the name of an 18th-century Arabic teacher, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, where Wahhab is from an Arabic word meaning 'to give', and the English ending -ism means 'a movement'. So Wahhabism means the religious movement based on that teacher's ideas and refers to a strict, conservative form of Sunni Islam.