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Mullah's edict
Answer for the clue "Mullah's edict ", 5 letters:
fatwa
Alternative clues for the word fatwa
- Mufti issuance
- Decree proclaimed against Salman Rushdie
- Mufti's proclamation
- A ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
- Muslim cleric's ruling
- Islamic religious decree
- Religious decree issued by a Muslim leader
- One was issued against Salman Rushdie in 1988
- Formal issuance from the Sheikh ul-Islam
Usage examples of fatwa.
The intra-religious disputes (Sunnis and Shi'a, for example) he planned to handle through a sweeping fatwa, or religious pronouncement of tolerancethat would look admirable even to his enemies.
In 1993, the supreme religious authority of Saudi Arabia, Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz, issued an edict, or fatwa, declaring that the world is flat.
These decrees, fatwas, were issued according to interpretations of Muslim Law which the Caliph, Mufti or Qazi 0udge) was empowered to give.