English transcript

In the book The Donmeh Jews, D. Mustafa Turan writes

that Muhammad Ibrahim Abdul Wahhab, founder of revivalist

Islamic movement Wahhabism, is a descendant of Donmeh from

Turkey. Wahhab's grandfather, Suleiman, was actually named

Schulman from the Turkish community of Bursa.

After being expelled for practicing sorcery in Damascus, he fled

to Egypt and fathered Wahhab. This claim is echoed in The

Origins of the Saudi Wahhabis by Refaat Salim Khabar.

In fact, it appears that much of the Saudi family has Jewish

ancestry. According to The Wahhabi Movement:

The Truth and

Roots by Abdul Wahhab Ibrahim Al-Shammari, Ibrahim

Saud descends from Mordechai bin Ibrahim bin

Mushi, a Jew from Basra. Abdul Wahhab himself

claims that in 1943, then Saudi ambassador

Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Mufaddel paid thirty-five thousand

gini to forge a family tree connecting them to the prophet Muhammad.

These claims are not verified. But considering the controversial role

Wahhabism plays in Islam, along with intel documents released from

the

Department of Defense, a report in 2002 shows that the

Iraqi government was aware of the Wahhabist activity to undermine

Islam.