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A fatwa (Arabic: فتوى) is a non-binding legal opinion in Islam, issued by an Islamically qualified religious law specialist, known as a mufti, on a specific issue. The following is a list of notable historical and contemporary fatwas.
Jadaliyya ("dialectic") is an independent ezine founded in 2010 by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) to cover the Arab World and the broader Middle East.It publishes articles in Arabic, French, English and Turkish, and is run primarily on a volunteer basis by an editorial team, and an expanding pool of contributors that includes academics, journalists, activists and artists.
Haram (/ h ə ˈ r ɑː m, h æ ˈ-, h ɑː ˈ-,-ˈ r æ m /; [1] [2] Arabic: حَرَام ḥarām [ħɑˈrɑːm]) is an Arabic term meaning 'forbidden'. [3]: 471 This may refer to either something sacred to which access is not allowed to the people who are not in a state of purity or who are not initiated into the sacred knowledge; or, in direct contrast, to an evil and thus "sinful action ...
It has Arabic to English translations and English to Arabic, as well as a significant quantity of technical terminology. It is useful to translators as its search results are given in context. [6] Almaany offers correspondent meanings for Arabic terms with semantically similar words and is widely used in Arabic language research. [7]
A cover of the book. Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran (Arabic: المفردات في غريب القرآن) is a classical dictionary of Qur'anic terms by 11th-century Sunni Islamic scholar Al-Raghib al-Isfahani. It is widely considered by Muslims to hold the first place among works of Arabic lexicography in regard to the Qur'an. [1]
The project suffered from a lack of funding, but Volume I, Part 1, covering hamza to " ʾ ḫ y ", was published in 1956. [1] In 428 two-column pages, it covers a lexical range to which Edward William Lane devoted about 100 columns in his Arabic–English Lexicon and to which Hans Wehr devoted about sixteen in his Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
The Arabic adaptation of hit Italian movie “Perfect Strangers,” which is Netflix’s first Arab original film, is sparking controversy in Egypt and across West Asia due to a gay character and ...
The Arabic-German dictionary was completed in 1945, but not published until 1952. [4] Writing in the 1960s, a critic commented, "Of all the dictionaries of modern written Arabic, the work [in question] ... is the best." [5] It remains the most widely used Arabic-English dictionary. [6]