• The Saudi crackdown on Islamic scholars refers to a series of actions taken by the Saudi Arabian government against various prominent Islamic scholars and...
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  • The 2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists consisted of waves of arrests of women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia involved in the women to drive movement...
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    Salman al-Ouda, Islamic scholar and member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars' board of trustees Safar al-Hawali, Islamic scholar, writer and co-founder...
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    Archived from the original on 29 April 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2020. "Rights groups condemn Saudi arrests as crackdown on dissent". Reuters. 15 September...
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    Abdulaziz and several other Kurdish Islamic scholars who were all part of the non-political "Union of Religious Scholars" group. The party's main support...
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  • The Saudi government does not conduct a census on religion or ethnicity, but some sources estimate the Shia population in Saudi Arabia to make up around...
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    The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State of...
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    in Islam, Mecca and Medina. With a population of almost 32.2 million, Saudi Arabia is the fourth most populous country in the Arab world. Pre-Islamic Arabia...
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    Wahhabism (redirect from Wahhabist Islam)
    the three Saudi States. As of 2017, changes to Saudi religious policy by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have led to widespread crackdowns on Islamists...
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    Decisions are, to a large extent, made on the basis of consultation among the King, the Council of Ministers, Islamic scholars (until the mid-2010s), tribal leaders...
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    it an escalation of an ongoing crackdown on dissent. On 2 September 2020, the family of Saad al-Jabri revealed that Saudi Arabia had arrested Salem Almuzaini...
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    fatwas in Saudi Arabia. The king also expanded the Council of Senior Scholars (containing officially approved religious scholars) to include scholars from...
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    roles in Saudi Arabia are heavily affected by Islamic and local traditions of the Arabian Peninsula. Wahhabism, the Hanbali school of Sunni Islam, traditions...
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  • equality is established in the eighth article of the Saudi Arabian constitution, and that Islamic scholars generally do not see male guardian approval as a...
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  • The Umma Islamic Party (Arabic: حزب الأمة الإسلامي) is a political party in Saudi Arabia that was formed on 10 February 2011 in response to the Arab Spring...
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  • pan-Islamic political unity, and the creation of Islamic states. In its original formulation, Islamism described an ideology seeking to revive Islam to...
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    and obtained approval from, Saudi and non-Saudi Islamic scholars to hold the interfaith dialogue. In the same month, Saudi Arabia and Spain agreed to hold...
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  • the group ceased its attacks in the early 1990s. A series of crackdowns launched by the Saudi government after the Khobar Towers bombing almost completely...
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    police; they enforce Islamic laws in the Islamic majority Aceh province. They are known for being very strict. Saudi Arabia portal Islam portal Ministry for...
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  • Wahhabi (epithet) (category Islam-related slurs)
    eagerly embraced such narratives, and deploy them to launch crackdowns on revival of Islamic religiosity and arrest various dissidents. Modernist intellectuals...
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    Afghanistan, India, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Islamism in general has been defined as a religious revivalist...
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    Terrorism in Saudi Arabia has mainly been attributed to Islamic extremists. Their targets included foreign civilians—Westerners affiliated with its oil-based...
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    aspiring preachers, Islamic scholars, and activists from Nigeria to Indonesia went to Saudi Arabia to study, and many more joined Saudi-funded think tanks...
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    following the Arab Spring and the crackdown on the Egyptian Brotherhood, the Saudi government has put "pressure on other states that have Muslim Brotherhood...
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  • religiously-motivated violence in Islam dates back to its early history. Islam has its origins in the behavior, sayings, and rulings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad,...
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    The cultural setting of Saudi Arabia is greatly influenced by the Arab and Islamic culture. The society is in general deeply religious, conservative, traditional...
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  • scholars arguing that the latter is far more explicitly negative. Using these differences, these scholars have argued that Muhammad, the main Islamic...
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  • Ahmad ibn Umar al-Hazimi (category Saudi Arabian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam)
    (Arabic: أحمد بن عمر الحازمي, romanized: Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥāzimī) is a Saudi scholar whose interpretation of takfir (excommunication) gave rise to the eponymous...
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    Omar Al-Muqbil (category Saudi Arabian Islamic religious leaders)
    Al-Muqbil (born; ) (عمر المقبل) is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, writer, researcher, preacher and professor of Islamic law at Qassim University. An alumnus...
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    Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2007. "Art in Iran" [xii. Iranian Pre-Islamic Elements in Islamic Art]. Encyclopوdia Iranica...
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