Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

вакхабиты

English translation:

Wahhabis

Added to glossary by trono
Sep 19, 2003 15:02
20 yrs ago
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Russian term

вакхабиты

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Wahhabis

That's what they're called in English. Muslim sect in Saudi Arabia and Chechnya.

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http://www.bartleby.com/65/wa/Wahhabi.html

or Wahabi (wдhдґb) (KEY) , reform movement in Islam, originating in Arabia. It was founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahab (c.1703–1791), who taught that all accretions to Islam after the 3d cent. of the Muslim era—i.e., after c.950—were spurious and must be expunged ...

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Vakhabit only has a few Google refs and they are mostly related to Russia.
Peer comment(s):

agree Kirill Semenov : Wahhabi, Wahhabis, from Muhhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, their founder (1703-1792). According to my English-Russian Historical dictionary which many times proved to be really useful and true.
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Thanks Kirill - I was just going to add that it has over 25,000 Google hits!
agree Elena Ivaniushina : 10,800 Google hits by my count :) How did you get 25,000? / EDIT: Indeed, I was looking for "Wahhabis", hence lower count
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Here it is! Searched the web for Wahhabi. Results 1 - 10 of about 25,500. Search took 0.25 seconds.
agree Yuri Geifman
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agree Mark Vaintroub
9 hrs
agree Oleg Sollogub
2 days 14 hrs
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Wahhabits

... Are there in Crimean growing Basaevs, as well as Wahhabits? ... I don’t know much about Wahhabits, but there is a small group of confused people [in Crimea]. ...

aspects.crimeastar.net/english/iumerov_conf.htm

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They give money to radical Wahhabits to keep them quiet. It is as simple as that. We call that the protection money. ...

www.africanindependent.com/ussaudiarabiabaerbook.html
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vakhabits

vakhabits

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In the aftermath of the war, the entire Chechen society was struck by a new danger-Vakhabism.

On the edge of this new fight were particularly the Kunta-Hadjists, whose values were declared heretical by the Vakhabits in the first place. In a series of bloody clashes occurred in villages between young murids and Vakhabits. The zikrists declared that the Vakhabits should be kicked out of Chechnya, and were strongly supported by all other Sufi orders in Chechnya.
http://www.jmu.edu/orgs/wrni/cs-part7.html
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vakhabits

The religious extremism - the dimension at South Kazakhstan.
... The latter are usually associated in the public opinion with vakhabists (not vakhabits, but vakhabists is the generally known name) or thalibs. ...
iicas.org/english/Krsten_9_04_01.htm

ок. 141 ссылок на Google на vakhabits, по сравнению с 11 на vakhabists

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wahhabit, vakhabit -- примерно равные по частоте употребления на Гугле (113 и 94 соответственно)

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Понижаю confidence level до 3 :) Слово все-таки существует, поэтому уж совсем неправильным его назвать нельзя.
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