Law in Saudi Arabia and the United States

Law in Saudi Arabia and the United States

Law of Saudi Arabia and United States

Saudi Arabia (or Arabia) grew out of Islamic Wahhabi movement, which from 1750 under the direction of Bedouin Hanbali Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1720-1792) fight to impose Islamic legalistic conception of religion , particularly inspired by the fundamentalist theology of the Ulema ibn Taimiyya (1263-1328).

Driven from her Bedouin tribe, ibn Abd-el-Wahhab took refuge with King Mohammed Ibn Saud, who reigns over an oasis of Nejd. Spiritual leaders Wahhabi Saud help to extend their temporal power: Kuwait is caught in 1788, the holy city of Karbala Shia is taken in 1801, Mecca in 1804, Jeddah and Medina in 1806. Turks and Egyptians reduce their output until 1902. In the first part of the twentieth century, helped by the British in 1915, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud III (1880-1953) is, with its Wahhabi Ikhwan warriors, control most of the Arabian Peninsula, with the Mecca (1924), Jeddah and Medina (1925), and had himself proclaimed king of Saudi Arabia in 1932.

Through the exploitation of oil wealth, business with U.S. companies, the Saudi rulers and princes of their tribes meet after World War II a substantial fortune, placed, especially in Western countries, and fund Islamic fundamentalist movements in modern Muslim states and western states experiencing Muslim minorities, thereby making himself financially and ideologically, so politically powerful. Kuwait, under British protectorate in 1899, must struggle against expansionism bin Laden in 1920 and loses to Saudi Arabia much of its territory. In 1946 oil production with British and American companies (British Petroleum and Gulf Oil) allows the family of the tribe Utub Sabah, installed in power since the mid-eighteenth century, and the eight major merchant families, of to be kind of financial reserves, which are placed in the West. Independent in 1961 Kuwait was immediately claimed by Iraq's General Abd al-Karim Kassem makes an attempt to annex which is then rejected by the British and the Arab League. As we know a new attempt will be made by Saddam Hussein's August 2, 1990, which is immediately countered by the U.S. very keen on protecting the independence of their Arab allies (Gulf War).

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy like Tribal, an Islamic theocracy.

Whereas, the legal system of the United States of America for its nature of common law offers the opportunity to explore a completely different order. It is a system whose sources of law are different from most existing in the Americas. From this point of view, represents an interesting dimension, unknown, and even arguably intriguing, especially for the civilian lawyer. This year we dive into the procedural institutions that underpin our legal system, the nature and philosophy that lie behind each of them. In a study in the American system, opens the door to meet those same institutions in a common law system. The importance of work in this regard should be dimensioned in the growing increase in the legal relations between our ...