چکیده:
This paper is going to have a consideration about the quality of Saudi Arabia’s charitable and humanitarian assistance as well as its huge financial assistance to East Africa countries which is mostly implementing through world Islamic league and some of its institutions under pretext of improvement of the economic structure and Muslim minorities whose are living in this countries. The main subject of the paper is to show the different ways that wahhabi sect is using since fifty years ago in order to propagate its ideology that has been so important in the policy of aiding to the other countries. The method of research is a combination of library and field studies and through deep studies in Kenya and Tanzania has been tried to testify that although Saudi Arabia has gained a so-called strong positions inside the governments and some Islamic organizations of eastern Africa (by using its cultural policy and contribution of petrodollars) but in fact is failed to reach to its main aim which is expansion of wahhabi ideology in this area. The major challenges of wahhabids in this region are strong resistant of its antagonists such as Shia’s، Sunni sects and Tarighats. . Have a consideration to all major and minor elements in the process of addressing the Saudi religious interventions in three countries of East Africa، is the paradigm of innovation of the paper
خلاصه ماشینی:
The research method in this study is library-based combined with field studies, and while collecting necessary information and conducting deep field investigations in Kenya and Tanzania, the researcher has sought to delineate the reality that although Saudi Arabia, by utilizing cultural diplomacy and under the cover of its supportive behaviors, has today achieved a relatively strong position in the countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and in addition to influencing many Islamic organizations and controlling the High Council for Muslim Affairs in these countries, it has also employed the soft power derived from its oil dollars within governments.
(Author's field studies in East Africa) 3-5- Sending Muslim students to Saudi Arabia In addition to granting domestic university scholarships, every year a significant number of Muslim students (who study in Islamic schools belonging to the Muslim World League in various African countries) are sent to the universities of Medina and Mecca after graduating from high school.
3 3-6- Distribution of free Hajj tickets During the past two decades, Saudi embassies and the offices of the Muslim World League in East African countries have, every year with the arrival of the Hajj season, distributed a number of free travel tickets to the Baitullah al-Haram among their affiliated sheikhs and scholars, and through this method, they also attempt to attract Islamic groups and organizations.