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On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World. The Salafi Group was not trying to establish an Islamic state. Instead, its members believed they we…
The Ikhwān were Arab tribesmen from the territory of Najd who abandoned nomadic life to settle in agricultural colonies in the early twentieth century and who embraced the Wahhābī doctrine, thereby playing a significant role in the rise of modern Saudi Arabia . They considered t…