This chapter places the debate over the limits of veneration of the Prophet in the context of modern controversies between Wahhābī and Sufi scholars in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. It shows how polemical exchanges rooted in the post-classical Muslim scholarly tradition of the late medieval period have been claimed, transformed, and valorised in contemporary Muslim thought. At the heart of these debates is the tension over notions of Divine Sovereignty and over the way the Prophet is perceived and approached by contemporary Muslims. The chapter points at how the Wahhābī charge of heresy against Sufis and their excommunication on bases of accusations of excessive love and veneration for Prophet Muhammad is grounded in Muslim conceptions of the Christian divinisation of Jesus. Against this backdrop, the chapter highlights the work and legacy of one of the most celebrated Sufi scholars of the late 20th century, Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlawī al-Mālikī (d. 2004). Heir to the pre-Saudi Meccan scholarly legacy, al-Mālikī came to embody the concerns of traditionalist scholars about the transformation of Muslim theological thought and devotional practices in the contemporary world. The analyses of his work, his trials, and his scholarly career point to a destabilisation of the pre-modern Muslim theological and pious perception of the Prophet, indicating shifting notions of communal boundaries, of the sacred, and of divine immanence in contemporary Islam.