Word: wahhab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FATHER Abdul-Wahhab Tbeilah, 58, is a generation removed from the young men who started the revolt, and did not think like them when the uprising erupted. His political sensibilities, like those of other older men in Nablus, had dulled after 21 years of occupation. An auto mechanic, he worked hard to keep his large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes...
Saudi Arabia's rulers follow Abdul-Wahhab, who founded an austere Sunni sect more than 200 years...