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Wahhab () is an Arabic word meaning "Bestower", from the root ''W-H-B''. Al-Wahhab (Arabic: ٱلْوَهَّابُ, romanized: ''al-Wahhāb)'', meaning "The Bestower" is one of the attributes of God in Islam. It is also used as a personal name, as a short form of Abd al-Wahhab (servant of the Bestower). In the Qur'an *Appears three times in the Qur'an: See also * Abdul Wahhab * Wahhabism Wahhabism is an exonym for a Salafi revivalist movement within Sunni Islam named after the 18th-century Hanbali scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. It was initially established in the central Arabian region of Najd and later spread to oth ... References {{Authority control Names of God in Islam ...
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Wahhabism
Wahhabism is an exonym for a Salafi revivalist movement within Sunni Islam named after the 18th-century Hanbali scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. It was initially established in the central Arabian region of Najd and later spread to other parts of the Arabian Peninsula, and was the official policy of Saudi Arabia until 2022. Despite being founded on the principles of Sunni Islam, the Hanbalite scholars Ibn Taimiyya and Ibn al-Qayyim in particular, Wahhabism may also refer to doctrinal differences distinct from other forms of Sunni Islam. Non-Wahhabi Sunnis also have compared Wahhabism to the belief of the Kharijites. The Wahhabi movement staunchly denounced rituals related to the veneration of Muslim saints and pilgrimages to their tombs and shrines, which were widespread amongst the people of Najd. Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab and his followers were highly inspired by the Hanbali scholar Ibn Taymiyya (1263–/ AH 661–728) who advocated a return to the purity of the first ...
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Abdul Wahhab
Abdul Wahhab () is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Wahhāb'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the all-giver". The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''u''. The last element may appear as ''Wahab'', ''Wahhab'', ''Vehhab'', ''Ouahab'', and others with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation. It may refer to: * Abd al-Wahhab ibn Rustam (784–832), the founder of the Wahhabism Ibadi Movement, in Tiaret, in Algeria *Qadi 'Abd al-Wahhab (973–1031), Iraqi Maliki scholar and jurist *ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad aš-Šaʿrānī, known as just Shaʿrānī (1492–1565), Egyptian Sufi teacher * Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani (died 1707), Moroccan diplomat and travel writer *Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Wahhab (1702–1792), Arab Hanbali scholar, founder of m ...
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