The historical background of the emergence of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab and his movement
[Thesis]
M. A. Al-Freih
A. L. S. Marsot
University of California, Los Angeles
1990
471-471 p.
Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
1990
Wahhabism was a revivalist movement that emerged in central Arabia around the middle of the twelfth/eighteenth century. Within a few decades it was able to establish a powerful state that controlled most of the Arabian Peninsula. The purpose of this study is to analyze the historical background which led to the emergence of Muhammad ibn \sp{\rm c}