In the 1400s/1980s, jihādī ideologues began to appeal to the Wahhābī heritage as the principal source of their revolutionary ideology, seeing themselves as the heirs of the movement begun by Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb. Gradually, the jihādī movement acquired a distinctly Wahhābī character, as Wahhābī texts and concepts became a focal point of jihādī ideology.
