Yes, and "coincidentally" enough these fundamentalists were the Wahhabis, whose extreme version of Islam was adopted by the Saudi prince Muhammad bin Saud when he and the father of wahhabism, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, formed an alliance to bring back the Arabs of the peninsula under the banner of Islam as they saw it.

It is important to note that the Hijaz was contested between the Ottomans and the bedouin changing hands between the Turks and The Emirate of Diriyah (the first Saudi kingdom). By 1810 the Saud controlled almost the entire peninsula.

Sacking Mecca and Medina, defiling the holy shrine in Kerbela and even hindering Ottoman trade, the Wahhabis were the point of punitive actions by the Ottomans who ordered Muhammed Ali of Egypt to crush them. Conflict lasted between 1811 and September 11 1918 (No idea if this is a coincidence) when the Diriyah fell.

Source; not only my lectures but "The History of Saudi Arabia" by Wayne H. Bowen

Edit; Oh wow, I meant September 11 1818, not 1918. Sorry people