Islamic Law and the Legal System of Saudí

Studies of Saudi Arabia

This volume offers an examination of the legal system of Saudi Arabia, not only for its own sake but also as a case study for insight into past and present Islamic legal systems.

CONCLUSION Through a series of case studies this book has essayed an
exploration of the Islamic legal system of Saudi Arabia, and by extension, of
Islamic legal systems generally. The chief purpose of the case studies has been
to work out, and then practice, categories of thought, lines of distinction, that align
better with observable phenomena than those that are usually imported by the
western legal scholar or social scientist. As was often observed, Saudi and
Islamic legal ...