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2 unusual facts about Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab


Muhammad 'Abd al-Wahhab

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792), Salafi theologian and founder of the Wahhabi movement

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

He then went to Baghdad, where he said to have got married to a woman of Najdi origin and settled down for five years.


Abd Al-Wahhab bin Ahmad Al-Misri Al-Sharani

Abd Al-Wahhab bin Ahmad Al-Misri Al-Sharani was a Muslim scholar born in Qalqanshada, Egypt in 898/1493.

Banu Qasi

Muhammad ibn Lubb tested his power against the new emirs, and they responded by again trying to balance Banu Qasi power in the region, giving Zaragoza to the rival Tujibids, and Huesca to Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Tawil of the Muladi Banu Shabrit clan.

Zayd ibn al-Khattab

His grave was purportedly located just north of modern-day Riyadh until the 18th century when it was levelled to the ground by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who claimed that it had become an object of idolatry.


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