The People of Monotheism

The People of Monotheism may translate several Arabic terms:

• Ahl al-Tawḥīd (Arabic: أهل التوحيد), a name the Druze use for themselves. Literally, "The People of the Unity" or "The Unitarians", from tawḥid, unity (of God).
• al-Muwaḥḥidun (Arabic: الموحدون) is an Arabic term meaning "the monotheists". It has currency as:
  • the Arabic name of the Almohads.
  • the term used by the early followers of the 18th-century Arabian Muwahhidun movement of the reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab to describe themselves
  • a term that adherents of Salafism use to describe themselves.
  • a term that the Druze use to describe themselves.
  • a term that the Alawites use to describe themselves.
• Ahl al-ʿAdl wa t-Tawḥīd, "The People of Justice and Monotheism", a term used by the Mu'tazilis to describe themselves.