Ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers were highly inspired by the influential thirteenth-century Hanbali scholar Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328 C.E/ 661 – 728 A.H) who called for a return to the purity of the first three generations ( Salaf) to rid Muslims of inauthentic outgrowths ( bidʻah), and regarded his works as core scholarly references in theology. It opposed rituals related to the veneration of Muslim saints and pilgrimages to their tombs and shrines, which were widespread amongst the people of Najd. The reform movement was established in central Arabia and later in South Western Arabia, and is followed primarily in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The term 'Wahhabism' has also been used as a sectarian and Islamophobic slur. The movement's early followers referred to themselves as Muwahhidun ( Arabic: الموحدون, lit.''one who professes God's oneness' or 'Unitarians'') derived from the term Tawhid (the oneness of God). 1703–1792), the term 'Wahhabism' was not used by Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab himself, but is chiefly used by outsiders, while adherents typically reject its use, preferring to be called 'Salafi' (a term also used by followers of other Islamic reform movements as well). Founded eponymously by Arabian scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab ( c. Wahhabism ( Arabic: ٱلْوَهَّابِيَةُ, romanized: al-Wahhābiyya) is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist movement originating in Najd, Arabia.

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