Ali al-Ahmed, a Saudi Arabian scholar and a critic of the Saudi monarchy, is the director and founder.

Furthermore, most Saudi scholars and religious authorities have declared women driving haram (forbidden).

Saudi scholars denounce secularism as strictly prohibited in Islamic tradition.

But another Saudi scholar, Hamid bin Ahmad al-Rifai, general secretary of the World Muslim Organization and a theology professor at King Abdelaziz University, rejected this logic.

The task was undertaken by Dr, Muhammad Al-Turki, a Saudi scholar, and published in 1999 by Dar Hajar in Egypt.

A Saudi scholar described to Jean Sasson the main tenets of Islamic Law and the punishment given to offenders.

In addition, he observed, until recently many Saudi scholars viewed folk culture as academically dubious.

Some 75 leading Saudi scholars and writers contributed to the encyclopedia.

Most Saudi scholars hold the opinion that it is permissible for a woman to show her eyes.

Saudi scholars, therefore, would not have permitted the use of firearms or the direct entry of non-Muslim forces into the Mosque's boundary.