Fatwas

Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)

A fatwa (; ; ; ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist issuing fatwas is called a mufti, and the act of issuing fatwas is called ifta. Fatwas have played an important role throughout Islamic history, taking on new forms in the modern era.

author, secular humanist, and feminist

Algerian writer

state-sponsored mass executions of political prisoners in Iran

Usulism (; from أصول meaning 'foundations' or 'principles') is the majority school of Twelver Shia Islam in opposition to the minority Akhbarism. The Usulis favor the use of (reasoning) in the creation of new rules of jurisprudence; in assessing hadith to exclude traditions they believe unreliable; and in considering it obligatory to obey a mujtahid when seeking to determine Islamically correct behavior.

Japanese writer (1947-1991)

Akhbarism () is a branch of Twelver Shia Islam, whose adherents do not perform emulation (taqlid) of an Islamic jurist (marja'). Akhbaris reject the use of intercessory reasoning via trained Islamic jurists to derive verdicts in Islamic law, maintaining it is forbidden (haram) to perform imitation of anyone but one of the Fourteen Infallibles of Twelver Islam. The vast majority of Akhbaris today are to be found in Bahrain, with notable minorities in Iraq, Kuwait and Tanzania.

Algerian writer

conference

Nigerian journalist

Islam Q&A (aka Islam Question & Answer) is an Islamic academic, educational, da'wah website which aims to offer advice and academic answers to questions about Islam based on evidence from Islamic religious texts in an adequate and easy-to- understand manner. It was founded by and operates under the general supervision of Muhammad Saalih Al-Munajjid, who is a Syrian-born Palestinian-Saudi Islamic scholar.

fatwa on soft drink consumption

1504 Islamic legal opinion

Azerbaijani journalist (1950–2011)

religious sermon

Islamic breastfeeding

senior Saudi cleric, close to the royal family

Iranian photographer

Afghan-American novelist, journalist, and human rights activist

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Algerian cartoonist

book by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi

islamic fatwa issued by Shaikh Mahmood Shaltoot regarding Shia Muslims

Statement of Iranian policy

book by Ahmad ibn Tajmijja

one of a number of fatwas on the subject of permissibiliity of tobacco use

ownership of land under the Palestinian National Authority

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Norwegian writer (1958–2018)

Collection of Verdicts on Apostasy of Deobandi and Ahmadiyyya by Scholars of The Two Holy Mosques

book by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Askimam is a website providing information regarding Islam. It was founded by South African Islamic scholar and jurist Ebrahim Desai in 2000. The answers on this website are reflections of the juristic views of the Hanafi Deobandi school of thought. It has been called more influential, wide-ranging and comprehensive than the web resources of Al-Azhar University and its sympathisers put together.