• A fatwa (UK: /ˈfætwɑː/ ; US: /ˈfɑːtwɑː/; Arabic: فتوى, romanized: fatwā; pl. فتاوى, fatāwā) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given...
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  • following is a list of notable historical and contemporary fatwas. 1504 Oran fatwa The Oran fatwa was issued in 1504 to address the crisis that occurred when...
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    Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. The Iranian government has changed its support for the fatwa several times, including...
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  • bombings, for which bin Laden was indicted. The indictment mentions the first fatwā, and claims that Khalid al-Fawwaz, of bin Laden's Advice and Reformation...
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  • resulted in many Fatwas, non-binding but authoritative legal opinion or learned interpretation issues pertaining to the Islamic law. Fatwas are based on the...
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    nonbinding opinion (fatwa) on a point of Islamic law (sharia). The act of issuing fatwas is called iftāʾ. Muftis and their fatwas played an important...
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  • Fatwa, Sahabah, and Iftaa are the responses in the form of answers, opinions or laws that are delivered and or given by Sahabah. In addition to explaining...
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    A fatwa by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, against the acquisition, development and use of nuclear weapons dates back to the mid-1990s...
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    The Oran fatwa was a responsum fatwa, or an Islamic legal opinion, issued in 1502 to address the crisis that occurred when Muslims in the Crown of Castile...
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  • Fatwa is a 2006 American dramatic thriller film starring Lauren Holly. Junior Senator Maggie Davidson's hard-line anti-terrorism policy makes her the...
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    Ghazan Khan. What has been called Ibn Taymiyya's "most famous" fatwā was his third fatwa issued against the Mongols in the Mamluk's war. Ibn Taymiyya declared...
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    Ifta (fatwa department), Darul Uloom Deoband are responsible for giving fatwas. On 31 May 2008, the seminary issued a significant public “Fatwa against...
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  • into India. In 1989, Supreme Leader of Iran Ruhollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against Rushdie, resulting in several failed assassination attempts on the...
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  • as a result of the severe health damage that it causes. A tobacco fatwa is a fatwa (Islamic legal pronouncement) that prohibits the usage of tobacco by...
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  • The Fatwa Council of the United Arab Emirates is a government body authorized in 2017 and established in 2018 which is responsible for licensing Islamic...
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  • On September 11, 1951, an Egyptian newspaper, al-Ahram, published a fatwa by mufti Hasanayn al-Makhluf ruling Coca-Cola and Pepsi were permissible under...
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    and fatwas are available through email. In 2003–2004, fatwa fees earned 40,000.00 INR. Fatwas covered a wide range of topics: 2000: In 2000, a fatwa banned...
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    Salman Rushdie (category Fatwas)
    subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of...
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    A Fatwa prohibiting the insulting of the most religious figures of Sunni Islam was published by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, on 30 September 2010...
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    for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis, his fatwa calling for the murder of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, and for...
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    Verses, when the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his assassination and set a bounty of $3 million for his death...
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  • Indonesia, issued a fatwa, or an Islamic legal opinion, against religious pluralism, liberalism, and secularism. The issuance of fatwa garnered substantial...
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  • Syrian-born Palestinian-Saudi Islamic scholar. He is the founder of the fatwa website IslamQA, a popular website for responses on the topic of Islam....
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    died in custody. Regarding the nuclear program of Iran, Khamenei issued a fatwa in 2003 forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of all kinds of weapons...
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  • was a leading proponent of the Salafi school of thought. Ibn Baz issued a fatwa authorising a wealth tax to support the Mujahideen during the anti-Soviet...
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    Movement, Mehmed VI issued a fatwa to qualify the Turkish revolutionaries as infidels, calling for the death of its leaders. The fatwa stated that true believers...
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    Fowzaan Ibn 'Abdullaah Ibn Fowzaan. According to his official biography at fatwa-online.com, Fawzan is from the family of Fawzan from the people/tribe of...
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  • free dictionary. Fatwah may mean: Fatwa, a legal pronouncement in Islam Fatuha, a block in Patna, Bihar state, India Fatwa (film), a 2006 American drama/thriller...
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    Islam, in other words 'halal'. The National Fatwa Council was established by Conference of rulers to issue fatwas. It conducts two types of meetings, one...
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    the clerical establishment. It climaxed in a widely-obeyed December 1891 fatwa against tobacco use issued by Grand Ayatollah Mirza Shirazi. Beginning in...
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