Wahhabi Iranology with emphasis on book publishing policies in the third Saudi government (1902-2020)

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استادیار پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی.
Abstract
The present study deals with a structural approach to the historical course of Wahhabi Iranology during the third Saudi government (1902-2020 AD).  It survey the approaches of the publishing industry during this period. The results are as the following:
1- Distribution of books on the subject of Iranophobia in large numbers at the all geographical areas in the Islamic world.
2- Transformation from ideological Iranology to political Iranology in universities and centers of strategic studies in Saudi Arabia.
3- A drastic change in publishing industry from usual publishers to effective publishers.
4- Historical turning points in the path of Wahhabi Iranology, it changed from the events related to the Iranian Hajj to the establishment of the " Dar Al-Taghrib"in Cairo, and the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
5 -introducing Iranian Studies among different branches of Wahhabism.
Through such studies, it is possible to identify the invisible network of Saudi Iranophobia in a much wider area than the geography of Saudi Arabia and to deal with it in accordance with its geographical and historical presence.
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