Wahhabism
Wahhabism is a puritanical form of Sunni Islam and is practiced in. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, although it is much less rigidly enforced in the latter. The word. “Wahhabi” is derived from the name of a Muslim scholar, Muhammad bin Abd al. Wahhab, who lived in the Arabian peninsula during the eighteenth century (1703-1791)
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The global jihad espoused by Osama bin Laden and other contemporary extremists is clearly rooted in contemporary issues and interpretations of Islam. It owes little to the Wahhabi tradition, outside of the nineteenth-century incorporation of the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya and the Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah into the Wahhabi worldview as Wahhabism moved beyond the confines of Najd and into the broader Muslim world.
The differences between the worldviews of bin Laden and Ibn Abd al-Wahhab are nume
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― Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad
― Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad
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Ibn al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision of Islamic society was based upon monotheism in which Muslims, Christians, and Jews were to enjoy peaceful co-existence and cooperative commercial treaty relations.
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― Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad
― Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad