wahhabi

It suffered severe damage in 1802 when an invading Wahhabi army sacked the city.

Referred to as Wahhabi, their self designation is Muwahiddun (unitarians).

This pan-Islamism did not extend to the Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia.

But Abdullah Thabet needed music and poetry more than the harsh Wahhabi creed.

Sufism is opposed by Wahhabi and Salafist Muslims.

More important is Qatar's progressive leadership, its small population and its moderate strain of Wahhabi Islam.

It is reported that Reid followed an conservative-orthodox form of Islam known as Salafi or Wahhabi.

The Wahhabi form of Islam is also perceived in the West as being a source of Islamist extremism - see below.

A small Wahhabi presence remains in Urus-Martan today, Mr. Itslayev said.

Pay attention to the fact that he is a Muslim fundamentalist and prays at a Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosque.'

The shrine was removed by the Government because such veneration is not in accordance with Wahhabi or Salafi Islam.

He is a critic of Islamic Fundamentalism, especially the Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam.

The combination of Wahhabi calls for the destruction of all non-Muslims and the world's greatest oil reserves should strike fear in all of us.

The full-bore hatred that the Wahhabi sect bears for Shiites spills out on Web sites, in the local news media and even in school books.

He soon became known for his scathing satirical attacks on the Saudi government and the fundamentalist Wahhabi school which governs all aspects of Saudi society.

Like most Saudis, the bin Laden family belonged to the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Sunni Muslims.

Within the last few centuries it has come under attack from the Wahhabi Sunnis which consider it polytheistic (which is a claim heavily refuted and disproven).

"All this is just a deadly game between the Wahhabi and Shia clergies," said Muhammad Farag Khalaf, 60, on the outskirts of the district.

Sharjah is a constitutional monarchy, ruled by the Wahhabi Al Qasimi dynasty since the 18th century, and a part of the United Arab Emirates.

One Canadian newspaper criticized her for being elitist and observed that the "moderate Muslims of Canada call her Wahhabi because of her unbending doctrines."

It is believed that the assailants are militants of the Islamic Wahhabi sect seeking to unite Chechnya and Dagestan to form an independent Islamic state.

However, Wahhabi and Salafi from Saudi Arabia and anti-Shiite stance of Iraqis who support Saddam, are influencing the government.

Meanwhile, Sunni Islam is in a sorry state, dominated by a purist and anti-intellectual fundamentalism that has been bankrolled by Wahhabi Saudi Arabia.

The book was praised by the Mackenzie Institute, which stated that it is "a direct challenge to the fanatics of the Wahhabi, Deobandi, and Khomeinist traditions.

The Germans came, Wahhabi Abdul Razak said, and took the best parts and put them in the Pergamon Museum, now in East Berlin.