The Qur’an
Royal religion
US President George W Bush looks at a copy of the Qur’an in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Bush is here to plead with the Saudi royal family to act over very high oil prices.
The dominant religious message in Saudi Arabia is a strictly patriarchal Islam, known as Wahhabism. The King Fahd Printing Press in the Saudi city of Medina has the capacity to publish 10 million Qur’ans a year in Arabic and 44 other languages. These are distributed around the world, below cost, and in some cases, for free.
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