(These are the movements that are forming the violence and commonly associated with Saudia Arabia and Qatar in the Arab Spring - Morris)
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Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (1703 -- 22 June 1792)[2] (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الوهاب) was an Arabian Islamic theologian and founder of the Salafi movement[3] whose pact with Muhammad bin Saud helped to establish the first Saudi state[4] and began a dynastic alliance and power-sharing arrangement between their families which continues to the present day. The descendants of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab, the Al ash-Sheikh, have historically led the ulama in the Saudi state,[6] dominating the state's clerical institutions.
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