Category:Wahabee

Wa*ha"bee, n. Etym: [ar. wahabi.]

Defn: a follower of abdel wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the bedouins, And the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts Of arabia, and also into india. [written also wahaby.]