Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam, was the second imam of the Imamate of Tahart and founder of the WahbiIbadism movement. He was part of the Rustamid dynasty that ruled a theocracy in Algeria. He became ruler after the death of his father, Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam and founded an external Islamic religious movement called Wahhabism relative to his name Abd al-Wahhab. His Ibadi Kharijite preaching is often incorrectly associated with the modern day Wahhabi movement.[1][2][3]
Early life
Abd al-Wahhab was born in 747/748.[4] His father was a PersianIbadi Muslimimam, Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam, the founder of the Rustamid dynasty in Algeria. He studied Abu Ubayda Muslim ibn Abi Karima's ideas and beliefs under his father, who was also a transmitter of Ibadi tradition.[5] He received the state after the death of his father in 788.[6] In 789, he let Idris I to capture Tlemcen without any negative reaction.[7] He died, probably, in the year 823/824.[8]
^Prevost, Virginie (2011). "Ἁbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rustum al-Fārisī. Une tentative de biographie du premier imam de Tāhart". Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East. 86 (1): 64. ISSN0021-1818.
^Prevost, Virginie (2011). "Ἁbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rustum al-Fārisī. Une tentative de biographie du premier imam de Tāhart". Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East. 86 (1): 57. ISSN0021-1818.
^Prevost, Virginie (2011). "Ἁbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rustum al-Fārisī. Une tentative de biographie du premier imam de Tāhart". Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East. 86 (1): 63–64. ISSN0021-1818.
