Wahhabi movement
The doctrine of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab was criticized by a number of Islamic scholars during his lifetime for disregarding Islamic history, monuments, traditions and the sanctity of Muslim life. His critics were mainly "ulama" from his homeland, the Najd region of central Arabia, which was directly affected by the growth of the Wahhabi movement, based in the cities of Basra, Mecca, and Medina. The early critics of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab classified his doctrine as a "Kharijite sectarian heresy".