Telling the people of Najd that their local saints were in fact ṭawāghīt and that those who venerated them were mushrikūn was provocative enough; urging his followers to show hatred and enmity to them was even more incendiary. Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s ambition was revolutionary: he was seeking to demolish the religious status quo in Najd and reestablish in its place a commitment to true Islam as he understood it.
