Abstract

As an unprecedented popular movement, Islamic Awakening taken place firstly in Middle East and northern Africa, has had outstanding effects over internal circumstances of the revolutionary countries resulting in political regime changes in some cases. Besides this, it has also had influences over regional arrangements. Islamic Republic of Iran and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as two regional powers have differently been influenced
In order to find an appropriate response to how different attitudes taken by Iran and Saudi towards changes, caused by Islamic Awakening, might have been influenced by their different and somehow conflicting interpretations of Islam, the article hypothesizes that while the political system established in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is based on a conservative Salafism and a quietist notion of Islam on the contrary Islamic Republic of Iran as a political system resulted from the Islamic Revolution, finds root in a revolutionary notion of Islam.  
The article tries to, comparatively, analyze why the two Islamic countries have taken fundamentally different perspectives in regard to the post-awakening changes.
As a result it might be concluded that the Islamic Republic though faced with some challenges in terms of the movement, it finds a wide range of opportunities hence goes with the popularization of the movement. Contradictorily, Saudi Arabia finds it a problematic and so tries to stop the movement. Following these two conflicting strategies, Iran-Saudi relationship has got blurred.