Page "Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab" Paragraph 6

Following his early education in Medina, Abdul Wahhab traveled outside of the peninsula, venturing first to Basra.

He then went to Baghdad, where he married a wealthy bride and settled down for five years.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”