Editing Prophet's Mosque (section)

==== Saudi insurgency (1805–1811) ====
When [[Saud bin Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad bin Saud|Saud bin Abdul-Aziz]] took Medina in 1805, his followers, the Wahhabis, [[Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia|demolished nearly every tomb]] and dome in Medina to prevent their veneration,<ref name="Weston2008">{{cite book|author=Mark Weston|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEEFsVYLko4C&pg=PA102|title=Prophets and princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the present|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|year=2008|isbn=978-0-470-18257-4|pages=102–103}}</ref> except the Green Dome.<ref name="Behrens-AbouseifVernoit2006">{{cite book|author1=Doris Behrens-Abouseif|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4q58Af5zAoC&pg=PA22|title=Islamic art in the 19th century: tradition, innovation, and eclecticism|author2=Stephen Vernoit|publisher=BRILL|year=2006|isbn=978-90-04-14442-2|page=22}}</ref> As per the sahih hadiths, they considered the veneration of tombs and places, which were thought to possess supernatural powers, as an offence against ''[[tawhid]]'', and an act of ''[[Shirk (Islam)|shirk]]''.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|edition=2nd|publisher=Brill Academic Publishers|volume=11|pages=40, 42|last=Peskes|first=Esther|title=Wahhābiyya|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]|year=2000|isbn=90-04-12756-9}}</ref> Muhammad's tomb was stripped of its gold and jewel ornaments, but the dome was preserved either because of an unsuccessful attempt to demolish its complex and hardened structure, or because some time ago, [[Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]], founder of the [[Wahhabism|Wahhabi]] movement, wrote that he did not wish to see the dome destroyed.<ref name="Weston2008" />