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Saudi Arabian Legal Reform as a Mechanism to Moderate Wahhābī Doctrine@@@Saudi Arabian Legal Reform as a Mechanism to Moderate Wahhabi Doctrine
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This article is published in Journal of the American Oriental Society.The article was published on 1987-04-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Doctrine.read more
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The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia
TL;DR: Commins' book as discussed by the authors examines the debate on the nature of Wahhabism, and offers original findings on its ascendance in Saudi Arabia and spread throughout other parts of the Muslim world such as Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The saudi public speaks: religion, gender, and politics
TL;DR: The fact that 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 were Saudi citizens inevitably raised serious questions about the social conditions that have produced such violent personalities capable of the mass taking of innocent lives and devastating an entire city, if not a nation.
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Is Saudi Arabia a Theocracy? Religion and Governance in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
TL;DR: The relationship between religion and government in contemporary Saudi Arabia has been discussed in this paper, where the extent to which religion is practically involved in politics and governance by examining the mechanisms of domination, the actual relationships between religious scholars (ulama) and rulers (umara), and the means by which authority is actually implemented.
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Islamic Law in the Modern World: Nationalization, Islamization, Reinstatement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a general account of some of the main changes that Islamic law has undergone since the late 19th century: the transformation of Islamic law from a jurists' law to a statutory law; the displacement of the ʿulamāʾ as the exclusive interpreters of Islam law; and the secularization and nationalization of the Islamic law through the judicial practice of the Constitutional Court and civil courts in Egypt.
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Current practices of Saudi corporate governance: A case for reform
Al Kahtani,Faleh Salem B +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the current practices involved in Saudi corporate governance arrangements and determine how such a corporate governance framework would most benefit corporate governance from the Islamic perspective, and provide a regulatory analysis to influence those regulations that should be implemented to adjust corporate governance practices as they affect the Saudi capital market.