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Saudi Arabia's Wahhabism (History (Founded by Mohammad bin Abd al…
Saudi Arabia's Wahhabism
History
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1744: ancestors of the House of Saud and al Wahhab formed alliance to unify the disparate tribes in the Arab peninsula - creation of the first Saudi state
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Triumph of the House of Saud, aided by its enrichment through the discovery of oil, demarcated our modern knowledge of Saudi Arabia
House of Saud became associated with opulence, far removed from its desert origins
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Arrangement between House of Saud & Wahhabi clergy: very conservative domestic governance and turning a blind eye to rich Wahhabis' financing of Islamic terrorism overseas
Wahhabism
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Wahhabism in its contemporary form is very different to the interpretation of its founder - Saudi Arabia and the world in its current form did not exist then
Application of a literalness to a wider more complex world - Wahhabism was taken from its original desert context and transferred to a modern IR
Today al Wahhab's teachings are the official, state-sponsored form of Sunni Islam in Saudi Arabia
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