Saudi funding displaced local Islamic traditions and made its interpretation seem authoritative.

Evidence

This financial aid has done much to overwhelm less strict local interpretations of Islam, according to observers like Dawood al-Shirian and Lee Kuan Yew, arguing that it caused the Saudi interpretation (sometimes called “petro-Islam”) to be perceived as the correct interpretation – or the “gold standard” of Islam – in many Muslims’ minds. — Wikipedia contributors, Wahhabism, 165

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the patronage-and-gold-standard logic from Opting out of the Legal System, where a dominant actor’s standard becomes the market default.