wahhabi

IPA: wˈɑˈɑbi

Root Word: Wahhabi

(Islam) An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).

Examples of "wahhabi" in Sentences

Is it true that there are 300 million wahhabi Muslims?
From what I understand, there are over 300 million wahhabi muslims in the world.
This is what you read in Saudi wahhabi sites: The Sunni Mufti of Syria denies that he is Shi`ite.
JP: "As I understand it, the wahhabi... and their strict thought carries great weight amongst parts of Saudi Arabia."
Within the main sects, there are great rifts– a wahhabi (salafist) from Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) will likely have a very different conception of Islam than a mainstream sunni from Malaysia.
"In the sermons of wahhabi (ultra-conservative) preachers on satellite television, we hear the worst things about women, like the fact that they should not be on the street but at home ... that they have an inferior status," Bizri said.
There is fear undoubtedly but I think there we be a louder moderate voice to emerge in Islam in the coming years – of course there needs to be diplomatic pressure on nations like Saudi Arabia to stop with the cultivation of and the exporting of the wahhabi cult. ward Says:
A study by the NGO Freedom House found wahhabi publications in a number of mosques in the United States preaching that Muslims should not only "always oppose" infidels "in every way," but "hate them for their religion ... for Allah's sake," that democracy "is responsible for all the horrible wars of the 20th century," that Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslims were infidels, etc via Wiki