Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Muhammad ibn Saud join preacher and sword at Diriyah; the alliance's call to strip Islam of saint veneration and innovation, rooted in Hanbali teaching, founds the Saudi state and spreads its doctrine with Saudi power.
Tagged: Hanbali Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 1744 (exact)
- Era
- Later Empires; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Diriyah; today Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam, Hanbali
- Key figures
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Saud
- Key texts
- Kitab al-Tawhid
Connections
- Death of Ibn Taymiyya; revived
Primary Sources
- Kitab al-Tawhid
Secondary Sources
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
- Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford, 4th ed. 2011)
Provenance: HIST-0245; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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