Wahhabi violence was largely a product of British imperial imagination.

Evidence

To understand the relationship between Wahhabism and British imperial policy, it is pivotal to grasp how Wahhabi-inspired indiscriminate violence was often the product of British imperial imagination. … Moreover, groups categorised as Wahhabi were often also labelled as pirates, thus placing them further outside of the liberal conception of universal rights. — Robin Alexander Plant, Discuss the Relationship Between…, 4

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the standard causal arrow: the threat is manufactured by the naming, not the naming by the threat — a claim about how empires constitute their enemies through taxonomy, with implications for how we read all colonial archives.
• SEED: An essay on how imperial legal categories (pirate, fanatic, Wahhabi) are stacked to strip subjects of rights — ‘outside universal rights’ as the machinery of exception.