Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
fetwah .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Islam A
legal opinion ,decree orruling issued by amufti or otherIslamic lawyer . - verb rare, transitive To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a
ban ordeath sentence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This fatwa is an absolute condemnation of terrorism.
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According to Khan, a fatwa is a response given in writing to a specific question, and can only be given by a qualified scholar, or 'mufti.'
Archive 2005-09-01 JDsg 2005
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According to Khan, a fatwa is a response given in writing to a specific question, and can only be given by a qualified scholar, or 'mufti.'
Sania Mirza JDsg 2005
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In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a "World Islamic Front."
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I think the use of the expression "fatwa" is insensitive, rude and unnecessary.
Extra Fizz: Council Cuts Travel Budget in Half « PubliCola 2010
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A "fatwa" is simply a considered opinion of a Muslim jurisconsult.
Archive 2005-07-01 JDsg 2005
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A "fatwa" is simply a considered opinion of a Muslim jurisconsult.
Tom Friedman and "Deaf" Americans JDsg 2005
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Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, judge of the Shari'ah Court of the UK said The fatwa is to express the Islamic point of view that those who are insulting to Allah and the messengers of God, they must understand it is a crime.
February 2008 2008
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In Sunni Islam any fatwa is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be, depending on the status of the scholar.
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This was the first time that most people outside the Muslim world had heard the word fatwa, or religious edict.
Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa Hitchens, Christopher 2009
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