The Government is based on the Shari'ah law of Islam. The chief ruler of Saudi Arabia is a king and the crown prince who succeeds the king. Saudi Arabia has no separate legislatures of political parties. The king and his ministers issue laws. Saudi Arabia is divided into 13 administrative provinces, with appointed governors and assemblies of local notables.
Councils of elders govern towns and villages.
The principle tribunals of the country are Supreme Council of Justice, the Court of Cassation, General Courts and Summary Courts. His mother died when he was 6. The orphan was consigned to the care of his grand father. In his late 30's he began to retire to meditate in a cave on Mt. Hira, outside Makkah, where the first of great events of Islam took place. As more and more revelations came, he went into the people to make them understand the principles of Islam.