Fatwa in a sentence

While Iran’s pro-reform government of President Mohammad Khatami distanced itself from the fatwa in the late 1990s, the multimillion-dollar bounty hanging over Rushdie’s head kept growing and the fatwa was never lifted.

Also, "A believer has to help keeping security, that of his nation and community, and protecting his religion." citation This fatwa is vague and itself is in need of another explanatory fatwa.

Egypt’s Al-Azhar Fatwa Global Center issued a religious ruling against the monetization of Umrah by proxy, referring to “religious brokers” as defying religious ritual purposes.

He openly advocates suicide bombings, calls for the carrying out of the fatwa imposed against author Salman Rushdie and demands 'the blood of any person who insults Islam'.

It was in 1989 that the Iranian government issued the fatwa ordering Rushdie’s execution.

On February 14, 1989, the then Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie following the publication of Satanic Verses.

A fatwa is a non-binding Islamic legal ruling from a respected religious scholar usually based on the Quran or the Sunnah - the sayings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad.

He announced that on Tuesday, the religious scholars from all schools of thought in Pakistan would issue a joint Fatwa and code of conduct for the public under the auspices of the Pakistan Ulema Council.

In effect, the fatwa connects the civilian death toll in Gaza to Hamas, and to its disregard for the lives of its own people.

She knew how the ulama in Iran had defeated the Shah on his westernizing mission, the famous tobacco fatwa of 1890 that forced the shah to cancel the British concession, and supported the constitution movement for democracy in 1905.

While the PMUs were intended to be temporary, and in spite of the fact that Sistani has the PMUs' abuse of his fatwa and asked Iraqis to join the regular Iraqi military, they nonetheless became a permanent part of the Iraqi political structure.

Some Iranian media later said Khamenei hadn’t issued a fatwa, though semiofficial news agencies believed to be close to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said the order had been made.

Sudan’s Islamic Fiqh Council, the country’s highest religious authority, appears to have taken the manner into its hands by issuing a fatwa against the potential agreement.

The Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council on Thursday condemned visits that were recently carried out by pro-normalisation groups to Al-Aqsa mosque.

The Taliban has issued a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for an “Islamic government” to be formed in Afghanistan.

The US has offered Sudan an attractive deal in exchange for a normalization of ties with Israel, but a fatwa by Sudanese Islamic authorities aims to block it.

They would follow the fatwa of some scholars and have their own congregation in which there would be a woman Imam and women followers.

Hazrath is an expert and Islamic Philosophy, Islamic Sacred Law and Fiqh (Jurisprudence) and all known fields of legal requirements of writing Fatwa.

It was the subject of book burnings in Bradford and protests in London before Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, declared a fatwa on the writer and forced him into hiding for nine years.

Soaad Saleh, an Islamic law scholar and former head of Al-Azhar’s fatwa committee, last year publicly criticized a ruling by Grand Mufti Shawki Allam that exempted Egypt’s national team from fasting during Ramadan in the run-up to the 2018 World Cup.