Methods of Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab for Dealing With his Dissidents

Concentrating on letters and debated of Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, this study investigates methods of his debates, dealing with his dissidents, and his belief propaganda. In this study his practical methods such as: wars, slaughters, crimes are not concerned because such methods need long discussion, but his apparent scientific and ethical approach with his dissent is focused. Abusing the holy Quran and Islam tradition, he invite people to himself and considers all of his opposites as pagans and declared fighting with them is necessary. Anesthetizing most of his contemporary Muslims, using dirty expressions and terms about opposite scholars, and adopting some Quranic verses about pagans for his contemporary Muslims, are some features of his method; as far as, he considered his contemporary Muslims more astray than the pagans at the beginning of Islam.