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The Destruction of Religious and Cultural Sites I. Introduction The Mapping the Saudi State, Chapter 7: The Destruction of Religious and Cultural Sites I. Introduction The Ministry for Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da’wah, and Guidance, commonly abbreviated to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs (MOIA), supervises and regulates religious activity in Saudi Arabia. Whereas the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) directly enforces religious law, as seen in Mapping the Saudi State, Chapter 1,1 the MOIA is responsible for the administration of broader religious services. According to the MOIA, its primary duties include overseeing the coordination of Islamic societies and organizations, the appointment of clergy, and the maintenance and construction of mosques.2 Yet, despite its official mission to “preserve Islamic values” and protect mosques “in a manner that fits their sacred status,”3 the MOIA is complicit in a longstanding government campaign against the peninsula’s traditional heritage – Islamic or otherwise. Since 1925, the Al Saud family has overseen the destruction of tombs, mosques, and historical artifacts in Jeddah, Medina, Mecca, al-Khobar, Awamiyah, and Jabal al-Uhud. According to the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, between just 1985 and 2014 – through the MOIA’s founding in 1993 –the government demolished 98% of the religious and historical sites located in Saudi Arabia.4 The MOIA’s seemingly contradictory role in the destruction of Islamic holy places, commentators suggest, is actually the byproduct of an equally incongruous alliance between the forces of Wahhabism and commercialism.5 Compelled to acknowledge larger demographic and economic trends in Saudi Arabia – rapid population growth, increased urbanization, and declining oil revenues chief among them6 – the government has increasingly worked to satisfy both the Wahhabi religious establishment and the kingdom’s financial elite. To do so, it has seized the dual opportunity to expand major Islamic sites and clear space for commercial development. The current Grand Mosque expansion project, for example, simultaneously benefits the wider Wahhabi proselytization mission7 and maximizes the profitability of the Hajj – the kingdom’s largest source of income besides oil.8 As these projects are almost entirely funded by the Saudi Ministry of Finance, they also provide a means by which the government can recycle its petrodollars for greater returns. Though the government frames them in mostly innocuous or opaque technical terms, 9 these development programs have disrupted traditional communities and caused irreparable damage to the peninsula’s historical landscape. In Mecca, state-sponsored ‘Islamic development’ has meant the paradoxical demolition of religious structures to make way for hotels, shopping malls, and cash- dispensing machines. 10 The Grand Mosque expansion is just the largest of many comparable ‘development’ projects at work across the kingdom; taken altogether, these projects represent a broader pattern of creative destruction, targeting some of the oldest and most significant places in human history. Moreover, the government has exploited this confluence of religious and financial interests to justify a campaign aimed at the erasure of dissenting minority heritage sites and the imposition of wider religious uniformity. These concurrent efforts have worked to expunge from the historical record any culture existing prior to Saudi rule. 1 As the MOIA has primarily committed rights abuses by failing to act on its mandate, this chapter will focus less on its institutional structure and capabilities than on its facilitation of the trends described above. Rather than a subject of analysis proper, the MOIA will serve as a perspective from which to examine institutional complicity in the monarchy’s destruction of religious sites, and as a target of related reform measures. Accordingly, the first section of this chapter will briefly review the function and mandate of the MOIA within this context. The following section will survey the destruction of religious, cultural, and historical sites in the kingdom, as well as related infringements on basic religious rights and freedoms. This section does not seek to present an exhaustive list of every site demolished by the Saudi authorities. Instead, it will trace the history and breadth of the monarchy’s campaign against these places, noting where applicable the MOIA’s efforts to obscure or defend the damage. Ultimately, this chapter will conclude with recommendations to the Saudi government on how to restructure the MOIA in order to better protect the kingdom’s heritage, rather than aid and abet its destruction. II. The Ministry Royal Decree 3/A established the MOIA in 1993 to act “in the service of mosques, developing and sponsoring endowments, propagating Islam, considering Islamic issues, and cooperating with Islamic societies and centers to help Muslims worship Allah.”11 According to the MOIA’s official website, its day- to-day operations work to achieve seven overall objectives. These objectives can be summarized as follows: 1) the dissemination of Islamic materials, 2) the proselytization and preservation of Islamic values, 3) the provision of support for international Islamic communities and institutions, 4) the maintenance and protection of mosques, 5) the preparation of Islamic books and research, 6) the proper management and investment of endowed property, and 7) the improved efficiency of Islamic services writ large.12 In addition to these duties, the MOIA also supervises the King Fahd Complex for Printing the Holy Quran and the circulation of its materials, as well as the variety of Saudi charities that promote Quran recitation and memorization.13 Essentially, the MOIA functions as a centralized regulatory and coordinating body for the range of Islamic services provided in and by the kingdom--public and private, domestic and international. Nevertheless, the establishment of the MOIA has apparently had little mitigating effect on the kingdom’s destruction of mosques, tombs, and other heritage sites. As the government has escalated its urban development and expansion campaigns in the wake of the MOIA’s establishment, the latter has widely failed to meet key aspects of its second and fourth objectives. More precisely, it has chosen to disregard nearly all religious, cultural, or historical sites in Saudi Arabia, opting for the narrowest interpretation of its broad mandate to preserve Islamic values and protect mosques. From 1996 to 2014,14 and then again from 201515 – almost as long as the MOIA has existed – Saleh bin Abdul-Aziz Al ash-Sheikh has served as the Minister of Islamic Affairs. The Al ash-Sheikh is one of the most powerful families in Saudi Arabia, tracing its lineage back to Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the founder of Wahhabism.16 In addition to his two appointments as Minister of Islamic Affairs, Saleh bin Abdul-Aziz Al ash-Sheikh was also appointed as one of the kingdom’s first muftis (or official Wahhabi 2 religious authorities).17 Two of the minister’s relatives have risen even higher in the Wahhabi hierarchy, each being appointed to serve as the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia; notably, Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, the current Grand Mufti, has allegedly endorsed state-sponsored religious destruction in the past, calling for the demolition of “all the [Christian] churches of the region.”18 The near-constant leadership of Saleh bin Abdul-Aziz Al ash-Sheikh is only one example of the MOIA’s formal connections to the Wahhabi establishment. More generally, the absence of any institutional separation from this establishment has rendered the MOIA unable to function as an independent government agency. To the contrary, it has functioned as an extension of the political and religious elites, selectively interpreting and applying its mandate to support pre-approved policy, such as destructive state-sponsored development projects. This arrangement has not entailed a strict commitment to the protection of certain mosques and religious sites, or even a begrudging acquiescence to the king’s direct authority over the two holy shrines.19 Instead, it has meant a reactive validation of any demolition based on the exigencies of the project at hand. III. Destruction of Religious Sites and Infringements on Religious Freedom A. Early Destruction Although the government’s development campaigns have intensified over the last 20-30 years, the systematic destruction of heritage sites did not begin with the establishment of the MOIA. In fact, the leaders of the Al Saud family first adopted a policy of targeting “idolatrous” religious structures during their re-conquest of the peninsula in the mid-1920s. As early as 1926, six years before the official unification of the kingdom, Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Saud (also known as Ibn Saud, the first king of modern Saudi Arabia) razed the holy tombs at the al- Mo’alla Cemetery in Mecca.20 The cemetery, which predates Islam, contained the resting places of Abdul Manaf (the Prophet Muhammad’s great-great-grandfather), Abdul Muttalib (the Prophet’s grandfather), Abu Talib (the Prophet’s uncle), and Khadija bint Khuwaylid (the Prophet’s first wife). That same year, Ibn Saud demolished most of the al-Baqi Cemetery in Medina,21 destroying the graves of Ibrahim (Abraham of the monotheistic faiths), Fatima Zehra (the Prophet’s daughter), Imam Hasan al Mujtaba (the second Twelver Shia Imam), Imam Ali Ibnul Hussain (the fourth Twelver Shia Imam), Imam Mohammed Baqir (the fifth Twelver Shia Imam), Imam
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