Wahhabi sampun nyebaraken pengaruh dhateng donyaning Muslim kanthi cara paring panyurung dana saking masjid Saudi, sekolah lan program sosial. Doktrin utami Wahhabi inggih menika Tauhid, Keesaan [[Allah]].<ref name="Esposito333">{{harvnb|Esposito|2003|p=333}}</ref> Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab dipunpengaruhi seratan-seratan karya [[Ibnu Taymiyyah]] lan nakenaken interpretasi klasik Islam, ngekeni lan ngandhelaken [[Alquran]] lan [[Hadits]].<ref name="Esposito333"/>
IstilahTetembungan "Wahabi" danlan "Salafi" (sertasarta [[orangtiyang-orangtiyang hadits|''ahlahli al-hadith'']], orang-orang haditshadist) seringasring digunakandipunangge secara bergantiangegantosan, tapiananging Wahabi jugaugi telahsampun disebutdipunsebat minangka "orientasi tertentutartemtu wonten dalaming Salafisme",<ref name=global>GlobalSecurity.org [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-salafi.htm Salafi Islam]</ref> beberapasaperangan orientasi menganggapnganggep ultra-konservatif danlan sesat.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090401107_2.html Washington Post, For Conservative Muslims, Goal of Isolation a Challenge]</ref><ref>John L. Esposito, ''What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam'', p.50</ref>
