The decade of the 1980s was characterized by the rise of ultraconservative, politically activist Islamic movements in much of the Arab world. These Islamist movements sought the government institutionalization of Islamic laws and social principles. Although Saudi Arabia already claimed to be an Islamic government whose constitution is the Quran, the kingdom has not been immune to this conservative trend. In Saudi Arabia, the 1960s, and especially the 1970s, had been years of explosive development, …showed first 75 words of 1871 total…

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