Islamic teachings include principles and applications that directly influenced local Islamic architecture in the past. The principles of privacy, humility, and hospitality are fundamental to these religious guidelines and have had a major impact on the design of Muslim homes, as well as on the regulation of space and social behaviour in these homes. However, Muslims today are very distressed by the recent political and social changes, as well as contemporary ideologies, which are not compatible with Islamic cultural values, and that led to the emergence of some architectural models that contradict Islamic principles and values. This paper reviews the impact of Islamic cultural values on the shape, features, and elements of housing and the relationships between these elements in many Islamic cities with varying environmental conditions. The results of the research showed that religious values are the main pillars of local architecture and that the essence of the architectural product of Islamic societies is the Islamic concept. Despite the different architectural composition and its diversity in Islamic countries as a result of the different environmental conditions surrounding them, there is a common denominator for the diversity of architectural formations and it is the stability of the Islamic concept. The researchers concluded that awareness of Islamic concepts and values while taking into account the changing circumstances surrounding contemporary designs, is important to express the local Islamic identity in ways that meet the needs of modern society.

A rich cultural and urban heritage has been accumulated through successive ages and generations on the land of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially in Al-Baha Area, whose features are still clear and its impacts are existing nowadays. Such heritage is reflecting the society's features, physical, environmental, and social merits, and as a result of the rapid changes in all aspects of life, architectural trends and ideas are emerged, which not much consistent with the values of society known with the civilization history. Hence, and to link the values of the past with the present, it is required to study the values of this local heritage and rooting it in the contemporary buildings by a deepen and balanced local vision matching with the present capacities and the past authenticity, so this study aims to draw out and study these values which including many systems of environmental treatments that could be rooted in contemporary architectural works that keep with age potentials and culture of the society. It also emphasized the continuity of Al Baha civilization identity, as well it provides and embodies certain architectural templates, which represent attempts of intellectual integration between heritage and contemporary in an attempt to create a sense of belonging and emphasize the architectural identity of Al Baha city. Furthermore, the study has adopted the analytical inductive methodology, progressive from the theoretical approach for studying the concepts related to heritage, contemporary, and their relevant concepts of values. Then, the study adopted the empirical approach through analyzing the contemporary concepts and trends in Al Baha to analyzing the most significant characteristics and values of Al Baha heritage architecture. The research concludes in identifying the architectural values that could be rooted at Al Baha contemporary architecture, providing a proposal enables us to solve the dilemma of local urbanization and architecture, besides arising the functionality of construction for achieving the contemporary architectural identity to Al Baha City.