Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wahabee

Wahabee , noun

[Arabic wahābi.]

A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Islam. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.