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Wahhabism & Salafism
Ahl al-Hadith; the Salafi movement
1744 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Saudi Arabia and, through funding and media, worldwide
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
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- <strong>1744 CE</strong> The Diriyah pact between Ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Ibn Saud.
- 1802 CE Wahhabi forces sack Karbala, destroying the shrine of Husayn and killing thousands — an act that shaped Shia perception of the movement permanently.
- 1806, 1925 CE Tombs in Mecca and Medina demolished, including the historic Jannat al-Baqi cemetery.
- 1818 CE The first Saudi state is destroyed by the Ottomans and Muhammad Ali of Egypt.
- 1932 CE The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia founded.
- <strong>1973–1980s CE</strong> The oil boom. Saudi Arabia funds mosques, schools, translations and scholarships worldwide on an unprecedented scale. Estimates of the total run to tens of billions of dollars. This is the mechanism by which a regional Arabian movement became a global force.
- 1979 CE The seizure of the Grand Mosque by Juhayman al-Utaybi's group; the state responds by empowering the religious establishment further. The Iranian Revolution the same year intensifies Sunni-Shia rivalry.
- 1979–89 CE The Afghan war draws in transnational fighters; jihadist Salafism emerges as a distinct and violent current.
- 1990s–2010s CE Al-Qaeda and then ISIS claim Salafi legitimacy; the great majority of Salafi scholars, including the Saudi establishment, denounce them.
- 2017–present Saudi social liberalisation under Mohammed bin Salman curtails the religious police and reduces clerical power, while political repression increases.
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