Round 1: Tossup 12

In one conspiracy theory, this man’s movement was orchestrated by a British spy named Hempher who sought to destabilize the Ottoman Empire. This man’s brother refuted his beliefs in a treatise entitled “divine thunderbolts” and accused him of creating a sixth pillar of Islam. This man, who cut down the “most glorified of all the trees” in Uyayna, also allowed the stoning (10[1])of a woman who had willingly confessed (10[1])to repeated adultery. In the 18th century, the veneration of walis and their tombs was condemned as being shirk by this man, who leveled (10[1])the shrine of Zayd ibn al-Khattab and promoted monotheism in his Book of Tawhid (“tao-HEED”). This man signed a pact with the Emir of Diriyah that emphasized a return to “pure Islam.” For 10 points, what Salafi revivalist names a fundamentalist movement that dictated (10[1]-5[1])official Saudi policy until 2022? ■END■

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