Najd

Modern-day: Saudi Arabia

Najd, the central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula, is geographically and historically distinct from the Hejaz, the western coastal region containing Mecca and Medina. Diriyah, Najd's historic center, was the site of the 1744 pact between the reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the local ruler Muhammad ibn Saud.

Content set in this region

Research Paper
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.