Ideology and Geopolitics: Wahhabism Saudi Arabia's Geopolitical Territoriality

Hasan Karimi; Yashar Zaki; Javad Etaat

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Ideology and Geopolitics: Wahhabism Saudi Arabia's Geopolitical Territoriality

Hasan Karimi, Yashar Zaki, Javad Etaat

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Ideology is the science of belief, or the belief system, and is one of the dominant concepts in the field of epistemology, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This concept was first used in France by a person called Destutt de Tracy. Wahhabism is the name of an ideology that dates back to the mid-eighteenth century in Saudi Arabia. The founder/theorist of Wahhabism is Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab. After he challenged his religious beliefs in Medina, he went to Najd, and met with Saudi Arabia's founder Mohammed bin Saud in the city of Al-Daraia, and since then, Wahhabism has become one of the foundations of the legitimacy of the Al-Saud government, which guarantees durability and its sustainability and justifies the transnational policies of the kingdom. Today, many of Al-Saud's actions in the political geography of the Muslim world, especially in the West and Southwest Asia are based on this ideology. This descriptive-analytic study investigates how Wahhabi's ideology has engaged in developing its geopolitical territory in the Islam World. It can be said that Wahhabi ideology is one of the main foundations of the Saudi political system and is an important factor in its geopolitical territoriality. The findings of this study indicate that the British secret support for the Wahhabi sectarianism, the longstanding link between the Wahhabi family and Al-Saud, the role of the Wahhabi scholars in the Saudi political structure, and the Al-Assad's investments in the Islamic world to promote this ideology, which is also supported by Al-Sheikh, all point to the importance of the Wahhabi ideology and its vital role in Saudi Arabia's geopolitical territoriality in the political geography of the Islamic world. Therefore, it can be suggested that Al-Saud, by promoting this ideology, not only seeks his survival at the head of power in Saudi Arabia but also seeks for geopolitical territoriality on the transnational boundaries and leadership of the Islamic world.

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DOI	10.11648/j.jpsir.20220502.13
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Ideology, Wahhabism, Geopolitics, Saudi Arabia, Territoriality, Al-Saud

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Geography Faculty, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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