The royal push for rigid Wahhabi Islam extended to missionary work. Saudi Arabia has funded enormous numbers of religious schools abroad to promote this hardline doctrine. And the consequences ...

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The power of the religious establishment was rooted in the compact at the heart of the Saudi state: The legitimacy of the ...

The Wahabi kingdom destroyed the tombs after it ... Shia Muslims across the country have started a campaign to get the Saudi Arabian government to restore the mausoleum of Fatima, the daughter ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest sovereign state ... Saud royal family along with a coalition of ultraconservative Wahhabi religious elites. Together, they enforce Islamic law and ...

The transformation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from a puritanical theocracy to an aspiring architect of global peace is one of the most paradoxical and politically engineered evolutions of the ...

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The rising influence of Saudi Arabia’s puritanical Wahabi version of Islam is an important reason for a growing number of South Asian Muslim women wearing the headscarf.