incorrect. saudi is shafi then maliki then hanbali. and it i think the people you are referring to in north africa may be hanbali aswell as maliki. there is no difference between the saudis and the other arabs. i think your misinformed on this issue bro. what i would say is there is political tension between the countries mentioned but there is
The easy explanation for differences within the Salafi movement is that some aim to change society through da'wa (preaching/evangelizing) whereas others want to change it through violence. But as the Saudi example shows, all strains of Salafism, even the most revolutionary and violent, make a place for social services such as education in
There is therefore a direct link between the Shafi'i and the Hanbali school. The Hanbali school derives its rulings almost solely from the Quran and Sunnah, which proves to be popular with groups of people wishing to return to a 'purer' Islam (the Wahabi movement, for instance, emerged out of the Hanbali school).
Major figures in the definition of the salafi perspective and approach are Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 855), the founder of the Hanbali school, and Ahmad ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328). The fundamental concern of modern Salafiyya, who recognize that Muslim power and influence is in decline relative to the West, is the relationship between Islam and modernity.WqCmC0.