How do you use Wahhabi in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like wahabi or muslim, plus the exact meaning.
Wahhabi meaning
An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).
Using Wahhabi
- The main meaning on this page is: An adherent of Wahhabism (Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement).
- Useful related words include: wahabi, muslim, moslem.
- In the example corpus, wahhabi often appears in combinations such as: the wahhabi.
Context around Wahhabi
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wahhabi
- In this selection, "wahhabi" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, intolerant, marked, sources, islam and version stand out and add context to how "wahhabi" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include among the wahhabi soldiery and and intolerant wahhabi version of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wahhabi" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wahhabi
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wahhabi sources have paid Tablighi missionaries in Africa salaries higher than the European Union pays teachers in Zanzibar. (18 words)
This reactionary tendency in Islam, embodied in contemporary times by the Saudi Wahhabi regime, has always faced opposition. (18 words)
Said bin Sultan of Muscat capitalized on this opportunity and attacked the Wahhabi garrisons in Bahrain and Zubarah. (18 words)
Indonesia used to practise an amiable, tolerant form of Islam, but decades of Saudi subsidies for the extreme and intolerant Wahhabi version of the faith have created a powerful activist minority who seek to impose their values on everybody else by law. (42 words)
Let them take those thugs they are teaching in their elementary schools and madrassas with their anti-Christian and anti-American Wahhabi Islam, and let them redirect their focus from our World Trade Center and point them at Tehran. (39 words)
After Bahrain received assurance from the Qatar that they would not cooperate with the Wahhabi forces if they crossed into their borders, they sent Ali bin Khalifa to the mainland to act as a collaborator with the local resistance. (39 words)
Example sentences (18)
Wahhabi sources have paid Tablighi missionaries in Africa salaries higher than the European Union pays teachers in Zanzibar.
Let them take those thugs they are teaching in their elementary schools and madrassas with their anti-Christian and anti-American Wahhabi Islam, and let them redirect their focus from our World Trade Center and point them at Tehran.
Indonesia used to practise an amiable, tolerant form of Islam, but decades of Saudi subsidies for the extreme and intolerant Wahhabi version of the faith have created a powerful activist minority who seek to impose their values on everybody else by law.
More and more people are looking towards Saudi Arabia as a socio-cultural centre with marked wahhabi undertones,” the books says.
Ayatollah Khomeini claimed broad Islamic support for the revolution and was quick to criticize the “decadence” of the Wahhabi Saudi monarchy.
In the process, he’s almost certainly alienated and angered powerful domestic constituencies—especially within the ruling family and Wahhabi religious establishment.
That’s why Mohammad bin Salman is following introduction of a kind of “Moderate Islam” in Saudi Arabia as a new model opposed to the classic structure of the conservative Wahhabi clerics.
This reactionary tendency in Islam, embodied in contemporary times by the Saudi Wahhabi regime, has always faced opposition.
After Bahrain received assurance from the Qatar that they would not cooperate with the Wahhabi forces if they crossed into their borders, they sent Ali bin Khalifa to the mainland to act as a collaborator with the local resistance.
Both the Wahhabi Pashtun Ittehad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf backed by Saudi Arabia and the Shia Hazara Hezb-e Wahdat supported by Iran remained involved in heavy fighting against each other.
Hostilities were provoked again after the Bahraini sheikh, in response to the harboring of Bahraini fugitives in Dammam, stopped paying tribute to the Wahhabi amir in 1859 and proceeded to instigate Qatari tribes to attack its subjects.
Muhammad Hayya also taught Mohammad Ibn ʿAbd-al-Wahhab to reject popular religious practices associated with walis and their tombs that resembles later Wahhabi teachings.
Over the proceeding centuries, Qatar was a site of contention between the Wahhabi of Najd and the Al Khalifa.
P63: Following the plunder of Medina in 1810 'when the Prophet's tomb was opened and its jewels and relics sold and distributed among the Wahhabi soldiery'.
Said bin Sultan of Muscat capitalized on this opportunity and attacked the Wahhabi garrisons in Bahrain and Zubarah.
The pact, which persists to this day, is based on the Al Saud maintaining the Al ash-Sheikh's authority in religious matters and upholding and propagating Wahhabi doctrine.
They continued to exert authority over the mainland, and paid tribute to the Wahhabi to ward off challenges on Qatar.
Turning against the Bahrainis, he instigated the people of Al Huwailah to revolt against the Al Khalifa and open up a correspondence with the Wahhabi in 1835.
Common combinations with wahhabi
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