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  1. A puritanical Saudi Islamic sect founded by
  2. Muhammad ibn-Abd-al-Wahab (1703-92), which
  3. regards all other sects as heretical. By the
  4. early 20th century it had spread throughout
  5. the Arabian peninsula; it still remains the
  6. official ideology of the Saudi Arabian
  7. kingdom.
  8.