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 ====Wahhabism, Salafism, and Islamism====
-Starting with [[Wahhabism|Ibn Abd al-Wahhab]] in the early 19th century, helped begin what is today known as [[salafism]]. This movement essentially advanced the idea that conformity with the formal jurisprudential methodology of the classical schools of Islamic law stifled an adherence to the words and plain meaning of the Qur'an and sunnah.
+Starting with [[Wahhabism|Ibn Abd al-Wahhab]] in the 18th century, helped begin what is today known as [[salafism]]. This movement essentially advanced the idea that conformity with the formal jurisprudential methodology of the classical schools of Islamic law stifled an adherence to the words and plain meaning of the Qur'an and sunnah.
 More important than the specific branch of Salafi thinking that Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's ideas would evolve into was the general notion that new, original interpretations of Islam core scriptures was possible, and that the classical schools of law had not only outgrown their initial usefulness, but had begun to undermine Muslims' loyalty to Islam's scriptures through their alleged idolization of scholars of Islamic law.