WahhābismAn essential history of Wahhbism from its founding to the Islamic State In the mid eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and the history of Islamic thought. Its founder, Muammad ibn Abd al Wahhb, taught that most professed Muslims were polytheists due to their veneration of Islamic saints at tombs and gravesites. He preached