Title: Ueber die Whaabis. [On the Wahabis.]
Weimar: Industrie-Comptoirs, 1805.
8vo. 32 pages. Text is in German. A scarce primary resource.
This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account.
Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.
This issue contains a substantial description of the Wahabis , an ultra
conservative Sunnite sect founded in the 18th century by Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab. Comprises much detail of their origin and customs, and the Wahabi conquest
of the Arabian peninsular, and Shi'ah martyr Imam Hussein. The two holy cities
of Mecca and Medina were captured only three years prior to the publication
of this account, in 1802, by the First Saudi State (also known as Wahhabis),
whom held Mecca until 1813. This contemporary treatise features the Battle of Karbala,
April 1802, in which an army of 12,000 Wahhabi soldiers occupied Karbala, slayed 4,000 inhabitants, and destroyed the holy sites of Shi'ism.
Subheadings as follows:
Ursprung der Whaabis. Geschichte des Schech Mahomed und des Ibn Soout.
[Origin of Wahhabis. History of Sheikh Mohammed Ibn Saud.]
Eroberung von Imam Hussem und Mekka. Niederlage der Whaabis. Adel-Azis Tod.
Conquest of Mecca and Imam Hussein. Defeat of the Whaabis. The Death of Adel-Azis.
Religion und Gebräuche der Whaabis.
[Religion and Customs of the Whahabis].
These are the original pages printed in 1805, and NOT a reprint.
This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816
and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy.
Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important
scientific journal.
Wahhabi or Wahabism, an Islamic reform movement, originated in Arabia; adherents
of the movement usually refer to themselves as Muwahhidun [unitarians]. Its founder propounded that all accretions to Islam after the third century of the Muslim
era - that is, after ca. 950 - were spurious and required expunging. This view,
involving essentially a 'purification' of the Sunni sect, regarded the veneration
of saints, ostentation in worship, and luxurious living as the chief evils.
The Wahhabi movement increasingly gained momentum; integral power was attained
when Ibn Saud advanced from his capture of Riyadh in 1902 to the reconstitution
in 1932 of nearly all his ancestral domain under the name Saudi Arabia, where it
remains dominant. Wahhabism served as an inspiration to other Islamic reform
movements from India and Sumatra to North Africa and the Sudan, and during the
20th century has influenced the Taliban of Aghanistan and Islamist movements elsewhere.
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