 Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab is generally acknowledged to have been born in 1703 into the sedentary and impoverished Arab clan of Banu Tamim in 'Uyayna, a village in the Najd region of central Arabia.Before the emergence of Wahhabism there was a very limited history of Islamic education in the area.For this reason, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab had modest access to Islamic education during his youth.