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ajiss-1061	Sabet, Amr	The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia By Andrew Hammond (London: Pluto Press, 2012. 240 pages.)	2014.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1411	48	52	In fact, as Hammond points out, many of these reforms have been nothing but “window dressing … driven entirely by the desire to protect the extraordinary powers of the Saudi royal family,” as well as by a felt necessity to appease the Americans (p. 150). These clerics, the pre- sumed guardians of the moral society, continue to give the Saud family a free hand when it comes to dealing with the higher issues of state, for the latter’s alliance with the clerics grants them the legitimacy they need (p. 65).	cache/ajiss-1061.pdf	txt/ajiss-1061.txt