Well, I read this article:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/saudi-arabias-idb-plans-blockchain-financial-project stating "The Islamic Research and Training Institute is seeking to create platforms that are sharia-compliant". This sound so wrong on so many levels
On one hand they always want to use the most modern technologies and on the other hand they want to grab on to a middleage lifestyle. Abu Dhabi is some kind of real life satire.
I think the arabic world as a whole will have a big problem in the future. At the moment they have money to buy all technologies which come to their interest but they develop nothing on their own. Once their oil money runs out we will see how long they can hold on to rules defindes 1500 years ago.