사우디아라비아의 통치기본법에 나타난 종교적 정체성과 세속적 정체성

Religious and Secular Identities of the Nation-State in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Basic Law of Government

Generally speaking, the basic law of government or the constitution manifests political, economic and social and cultural identities of a nation-state and is put on a higher plane than any law in the legal system. Thus, an analysis of it is the first step towards understanding political, economic and social and cultural identities, as well as the aspects of people’s lives, of a nation-state. Religious and secular identities are both in harmony and tension with each other in the basic law of government (or the constitution) of the nation-states in the Middle Eastern Arab-Islamic region. In order to fathom national identities in the basic law of government (or the constitution) in the region, this paper attempts to analyze the Basic Law of Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In so doing, it endeavors to understand how Islamic shar‘ī principles are reflected in the Kingdom’s Basic Law of Government, and how they regulate the people of the Kingdom.