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Formal issuance from the Sheikh ul-Islam
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fatwa
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Fatwa is a 2006 American dramatic thriller film starring Lauren Holly .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Arabic fetwa "a decision given by a mufti," related to fata "to instruct by a legal decision." Popularized in English 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a ruling sentencing author Salman Rushdie to death for publishing "The Satanic ...
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n. a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetwah \Fet"wah\, n. [Ar.] A written decision of a Turkish mufti some point of law; also applied to opinions by certain other Islamic religious authorities on points of Islamic law, such as in Iran. [Also spelled fatwah and fatwa .] --Whitworth.
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.