Which ones bar alcohol? I would assume Saudi Arabia. Which others?
Without making any effort to search, I can tell you that Brunei (in South East Asia) is also dry and Islamic.
But getting alcohol is not much of a problem if you live there and desire it. And that’s without sneaking into neighbouring Sarawak for a pint.
In Pakistan, Pakistanis and Muslims (i.e. non-Pakistani Muslims) are not allowed to drink. To order booze, you have to sign a form saying you are neither Pakistani nor Muslim.
Everyone there drinks. People typically have booze in their houses. I was there for business, and the people I met with wanted to meet in my hotel room. I thought that was weird, but realized why, when they got there and wanted to order a couple of rounds. So I signed off that I and I alone was drinking some 12 drinks, and everything was good.
I am actually looking for dry nations. Where you cannot sell or buy alcohol. Like in Saudi Arabia. If you’re caught it is 80 lashes and it doesn’t matter if you are a Muslim or not.
I’m also not making any effort to search, but I know Iran is dry. The stiffest thing you can get there is non-alcoholic beer, which tastes lousy, IMO. When I visited, I heard stories of people who had their alcohol confiscated at customs, and dumped down the toilet with the offender witnessing – just so that everyone knows the customs officers aren’t taking the contraband home. I don’t know how true these stories are, but they sound plausible.
Interestingly enough, you can still get Coca Cola (the real thing!) in Iran. I found no other signs of American products* during my stay.
- Current production, that is. Land-barge American station wagons from the mid-70s are used as ambulances in Tehran.
I would assume that all Islamic (the govt.) countries are dry by law. Islam forbids alchohol.
Peace,
mangeorge
Iran is dry, but apart from Saudi Arabis I think all the other Muslim countries allow non-Muslims to drink alcohol.
Alcohol is not banned in Turkey. The only restriction is that you aren’t allowed to sell or drink it near a mosque.
Even the Apollon, that’s not strictly true. At one English resturant in Turkey many is the time I’ve sat at the bar having a pint while being deafened by the loud speakers issuing the call to pray from the mosque across the street.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding “Islamic Country”. Does the OP mean a country with a secular government where the predominant religion is Islam, like Iraq?
Well offically Turkey is an Islamic republic. It’s very difficult to divide Muslim countries along lines of secular and non-secular it’s more like shades of gray.
Here in the United Arab Emirates, the emirate of Sharjah is completely dry. No one can buy any alcohol anywhere. Possession would almost certainly be illegal, though there may be some exemption if a non-muslim had flown in from Dubai, and was driving to Ras Al Khaimah with duty free in his/her car, eg. But I don’t think if that non-muslim lived in Sharjah, he/she would even be allowed to keep legally bought elsewhere alcohol at his/her home.
In Dubai and Abu Dhabi, legally one can buy drink at the Airport duty free on arrival into the country, one can buy drink in a hotel restaurant or bar, and one can buy drink from a few alcohol shops if one has a licence. The amount one can buy with this licence is limited, up to a maximum, and the amount is scaled according to one’s salary.
Muslims cannot get an alcohol licence. They can quite often get away with buying it in bars, or at the duty free.
Illegally, one can drive to Ajman, the other side of Sharjah from Dubai, and buy alcohol at the “hole in the wall.” It’s not a long drive, but one obviously takes a risk. Not drinking myself, I have never visited there, but I understand it is surprisingly open and well-signposted, not hidden in anyway, nor even an actual hole in the wall.
It’s more accurate to say everyone of a certain class drinks, or many do.
However, I am amused. I might relate similar stories were I in the mood.
However as to a factual answer, I believe some research is necessary, and one has to differentiate between what is on the books, and the actual facts on the ground.
Regardless, little of the Muslim world is really dry. Not wet perhaps, but not really dry.
Bosnia’s not, although, with some of the stuff that Bosnians drink, you might wish it were. <Thinks of Slivovitz and shudders>
To put a spin on this. Do they in say Saudi Arabia or UAE sell the ingredients to make “bathtub gin”?
Exactly what did you mean (in the OP) by “bar” alchohol, Markxxx? That could be taken two ways, you see. 
Of course they do. You can make bathtub gin out of any starchy food. Wheat, for instance. In Science at school we made a vile rubber-flavoured vodka out of boiled potatoes. Juniper &c. in gin are only for flavouring.
Regards,
Agback
A couple years ago I travelled through the middle east and none of the following countries are dry:
Turkey,
Syria,
Lebanon,
Jordan,
Israel,
Egypt.
However, in most of these countries conspicuous consumption and public drunkeness are HIGHLY frowned upon
Awwww, come on, why are you so stingy with the travel stories lately? What would we be able to do to convince you? Just how likkered up do you have to be, and can I in any way facilitate the process?
(Having sampled a fine Algerian vintage or two in my late-glasnost student days, I must say that I wish Algeria were dry in actuality.)
Former cow-orker of mine has been to Saudi. He claims there are more alcoholics there per capita than here in the States. Pretty sure his figures were pulled from his rectum but the reason he gave was interesting - there’s nothing to do. The society forbids so many things that sitting in your room with a bottle of illegal hooch is what they do for entertainment.