Saudi Arabia's Legal System for the Development and Preservation of Forests Based on the Principles of Islamic Law

Abstract

Islamic law, or Sharī'ah, pays close attention to all issues that are beneficial to people's religious and secular lives. Furthermore, because Sharia law is comprehensive and all-encompassing. The purpose of these appropriate and well-defined regulations for the growth and preservation of forests, as well as the way in which they are used in Saudi laws and provisions concerning the same subjects, was to demonstrate how closely these statutory laws and provisions are tied to and grounded in Sharia. The aforementioned laws and regulations demonstrate the Saudi Arabian government's keen interest in the development and preservation of its forests. It supports any pertinent policy and measure aimed at organizing this development, drawing on the primary statutory sources—the Qur'ān and the Sunnah—as well as the enacted statutory provisions pertaining to forests.