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Wahabism

Wahabism is the alternative form of Wahhabism.

Meaning of Wahhabism

Proper noun

Wahhabism (uncountable)

  1. A Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703–1792), followed primarily in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Questions about Wahabism

What is Wahabism the alternative form of?
Wahabism is the alternative form of Wahhabism.

Words near Wahabism in the dictionary

  1. Wahabee
  2. Wahabees
  3. Wahabi
  4. Wahabiism
  5. Wahabis
  6. Wahabism
  7. Wahabit
  8. Wahabite
  9. Wahabites
  10. Wahabitism
  11. Wahabits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wahabism (page history and authors); Wahhabism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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