in the 1990s, saudi leadership did not emphasize its identity as inheritor of the wahhabi legacy as such, nor did the descendants of muhammad ibn abd al wahhab, the al ash shaykh, continue to hold the highest posts in the religious bureaucracy. wahhabi influence in saudi arabia, however, remained tangible in the physical conformity in dress, in public deportment, and in public prayer. most significantly, the wahhabi legacy was manifest in the social ethos that presumed government responsibility for the collective moral ordering of society, from the behavior of individuals, to institutions, to businesses, to the government itself.