Wahhabi doctrine commands obliterating images and tombs wherever they are found.

Evidence

After the listing of the reports, Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahha¯b presents a list of summary issues, the last of which states simply: “The command to obliterate such images and tombs wherever they are found.” — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1867

Categorization

• SEED: This command is the genealogical thread from 18th-century Arabia to ISIS’s Mosul and Palmyra demolitions and to the iconoclasm authorizing destruction of Shi’i imam shrines — a usable essay spine on iconoclasm as a continuous enemy-making practice.