Bidah

Definition

Foreign innovation in religion; condemned by Ibn Taymiyyah’s call to purify Islam, and rejected wholesale by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who held true Islam to exist only in the first three generations.

Episodes

• 174 — History of non-Christian Religions — Topic 15

Related Concepts

• Ibn Taymiyyah
• Reformation Parallel
• Sunnah
• Wahhabism