Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ESKIYENI, sa.49, ss.563-590, 2023 (ESCI)
Hanafi scholar Muhammad Amin Ibn Abidin (1198-1252/1784-1836) witnessed important developments for the history of the Wahhabis during his lifetime. Wahhabis captured the Hijaz. However, the governor of Egypt Kavalali Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and his sons Tosun Pasha and Ibrahim Pasha took back the Hijaz and abolished the first Saudi government established by the Wahhabis. Ibn Abidin in his work Radd al-Muhtar considers the Wahhabis as the rebels who rebelled against the state. He sees them as Kharijites who re-belled against Caliph Ali, andhe refers to them as "Kharijites in our time". According to Ibn Abidin, Wahhabis accept the Hanbali school. However, they believe that only they are Mus-lims, and consider their opponents as polytheists. They consider it permissible to kill members of Ahl al-Sunnah. Hanafi sects that emerged recently in the Indian subcontinent criticized the Wahhabis Ahmad Riza Han Barelvi/Barelwi (1272-1340/1856-1921), the fo-under of the Barelvi community, is a Hanafi Maturidi and Sufi known for his anti-Wahhabi stance. Barelvi accuses the Deobandis, who are Hanafi Maturidi and Sufis like himself, of being Wahhabis. Deobandi scholar Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri (1269-1346/1852-1927) eva-luates the Wahhabis as Kharijites by quoting the statements of Ibn Abidin and rejects the Wahhabi attribution made to them. These statements of Saharanpuri were also confirmed by the prominent Deobandi scholars of the period. Being anti-Wahhabi does not mean be-ing pro-Ottoman. The caliphate view of the Barelvis, who did not see the Ottoman calip-hate as legitimate because they were not from the Quraysh generation, is in line with the caliphate claim of Sharif Hussein, who would agree with the British and rebel against the Ottomans with the claim of caliphate. Sharifs also fought against the Wahhabis. Deobandis rejected Sharif Hussein's claim to caliphate and continued to support the Ottoman calip-hate. In this study, the views of these two Hanafi schools on Wahhabism are discussed by establishing their relationship with the historical developments in the region.