Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sulaymān al-Tamīmī[Note 1] (1703–1792) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher, activist, [12] religious leader, [9] jurist, [13] and reformer, [14] who was from Najd in central Arabia and is considered as the eponymous founder of the Wahhabi movement. [15] .