?–1765 CE · Emir of Diriyah; founder of the First Saudi State

Muhammad ibn Saud

Muhammad ibn Saud ruled Diriyah, a small town in the Najd region of central Arabia, when he entered his 1744 pact with Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab: political and military backing for his expansion across the Arabian Peninsula in exchange for enforcing the reformer's doctrinal program.

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice
A historical-critical essay testing whether practices commonly defended as Islamic -- from denying women their Qur'anic inheritance shares to state corruption and the political shaping of orthodoxy -- rest on the Qur'an itself, or on later interpretation, historical tradition, absorbed local custom, and political authority defended in revelation's name.

Muhammad ibn Saud

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice