Editorial: Thousand Times Richer Than the Ottomans—But What Has the House of Saud Built for Muslim Civilization?
(RAHNUMA) The House of Saud today commands wealth on a scale the Ottoman sultans could scarcely have imagined. Under the broadest calculations, the disparity may approach a thousandfold. Yet wealth alone has never made a civilization. The Ottoman sultans possessed vastly less, but transformed enormous resources into mosques, madrasas, libraries, hospitals, fountains, public kitchens, caravanserais […]
