Editing Theocracy (section)

==== Saudi Arabia ====

In the [[Basic Law of Saudi Arabia]], [[Saudi Arabia]] defines itself as a sovereign Arab [[Islamic state]] with Islam as its official religion. However, some critiques describe Saudi Arabia as an Islamic theocracy. Religious minorities do not have the right to practice their religion openly. Conversion from Islam to another religion is punishable by death as [[apostasy]].<ref>{{cite book|quote=Saudi Arabia is a leading Islamic theocracy in the world today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v-GEDwAAQBAJ&q=Saudi+Arabia+is+an+Islamic+theocracy&pg=PT172|title=Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance: Alternatives to Litigation?|year=2019|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=9781351188890|first1=Adnan|last1=Trakic|first2=John|last2=Benson|first3=Pervaiz K|last3=Ahmed|access-date=2022-11-21|archive-date=2023-01-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119145156/https://books.google.com/books?id=v-GEDwAAQBAJ&q=Saudi+Arabia+is+an+Islamic+theocracy&pg=PT172|url-status=live}}</ref> Muhammad Al-Atawneh describes the current Saudi regime as a 'theo-monarchy, that draws power from long-standing religio-cultural norms.'<ref>{{cite journal |quote= Is Saudi Arabia a Theocracy? Religion and Governance in Contemporary Saudi Arabia |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/40647150 |title= Is Saudi Arabia a Theocracy? Religion and Governance in Contemporary Saudi Arabia |year= 2009 |publisher= [[Routledge]] |issn= 0026-3206 |first= Muhammad |last= Al-Atawneh |journal= Middle Eastern Studies |volume= 45 |issue= 5 |pages= 721–737 |doi= 10.1080/00263200802586105 |jstor= 40647150 |s2cid= 144381914 |access-date= 2022-11-21 |archive-date= 2022-10-20 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221020111031/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40647150 |url-status= live }}</ref>