High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saudi Arabia's laws are an amalgam of rules from Sharia, especially as those rules are formulated by the Hanbali school of jurisprudence, as well as royal decrees, royal ordinances, other royal codes and bylaws, and fatawa from the Council of Senior Religious Scholars. The kingdom's laws treat blasphemy as an instance of apostasy. Sharia says apostasy is a Hadd offence (an offence against the deity). Sharia prescribes the death penalty for Hadd offences.