WAHHABI

also Wahabi noun Etymology: Arabic wahhābī, from Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb (Abdul-Wahhab) died 1787 Arabic religious reformer Date: 1807 a member of a puritanical Muslim sect founded in Arabia in the 18th century by Muhammad ibn-Abdul Wahhab and revived by ibn-Saud in the 20th century, ~sm also Wahabism noun ~te also Wahabite adjective or noun