Religion in Saudi Arabia

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Islam is the state religion of Saudi Arabia. As the "home of Islam" where the prophet of Islam lived and carried out his mission, the kingdom attracts millions of Muslim Hajj pilgrims annually, and thousands of clerics and students who come from across the Muslim world to study. Majority of its citizens are Muslim, including most of the population of foreign workers as well. Hanbali is the official version of Sunni Islam and it is used in the legal and education systems. The Basic Law of Saudi Arabia states that it is the duty of every citizen to defend Islam. Religion in Saudi Arabia has had a reach beyond its borders as since the 1970s the Saudi government has spent tens of billions of dollars of its petroleum export revenue throughout the Islamic world and elsewhere promoting Islam and specifically the strict revivalist Salafi school based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, known as Wahhabism. However in 2017, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, eliminated many Wahhabi...

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