No one can put a number on those who support the most extreme form of Wahhabism.

"It was not Wahhabism which produced them, it is the other circumstances in the region."

Thousands of new mosques here indoctrinate muslims with saudi sunni wahhabism.

Madkhalism is often compared to Wahhabism, sharing a number of tenents with the wider movement.

His other interest, several people said, was the local mosque that adheres to Wahhabism, the strict sect followed by many militants.

However, since the latter part of the 1990s, radical and militant elements said to be linked with Wahhabism are said to have been acquiring influence.

But militant Wahhabism and other religious doctrines advocating violence are freely preached in the United States.

What connection, if any, there is between Wahhabism and Jihadi Salafis is disputed.

There has been an intense debate over whether Saudi aid and Wahhabism has fomented extremism in recipient countries.

Words as "Islamism", "radical Islam", "salafism", "wahhabism", are often used without a clear meaning and content.

It preached ideas of wahhabism, having created branches in Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

"Defeating Wahhabism".

Al-Albani's discourse can therefore be a form of Salafism, while being critical of Wahhabism."

Mixed with them are smaller elements of Islamic extremism, including that of the Saudi branch called Wahhabism.

However, Wahhabism focuses on correct methods of worshipping God, removing idols, and ensuring adherence to Islamic law.

Kadyrov, as Chief Mufti, was critical of Wahhabism, to which many of the foreign fighters adhered.

Estimates of the percentage of American Muslims who worship in mosques that adhere to Wahhabism vary widely.

The Saudi government began to spend tens of billions of dollars throughout the Islamic World to promote Wahhabism, which was sometimes referred to as "petro-Islam".

During the nineteenth century, Wahhabism would become the dominant Islamic mood and Sufism became increasingly marginalised and, consequently, even more bizarre and superstitious.

Saudi Wahhabism is hostile to any reverence given to historical or religious places of significance for fear that it may give rise to 'shirk' (that is, idolatry).

They are fighting to prevent strict sharia and Wahhabism from being imposed on Somalia and protecting the country's Sunni-Sufi traditions and generally moderate religious views.

Clifford Geertz described Schwartz as "a strange and outlandish figure" and concluded that the book was on a "conflation of Wahhabism with Islamism generally".

Experts estimate that of the two million American Muslims who attend mosques regularly, no more than 25 percent, and perhaps many fewer, adhere to the strictures of Wahhabism.

For decades, the Saudi royal family could count on support from the United States even as it allowed Wahhabism to project its hate-filled vision of Islam around the world.

I had been sentenced by a religious court because of articles I had written calling for freedom of speech and criticizing Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's official religious doctrine.