Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wahabites

(3 syl.). A Mahometan sect, whose object is to bring back the doctrines and observances of Islam to the literal precepts of the Koran; so called from the founder, Ibn-abd-ul-Wahab

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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