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Nine of the fourteen Malaysian states have their own sultan; each of these nine states have their own mufti who usually controls the Islamic Council or Islamic Department of the state. At the national level, the Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs together with the five officials appointed by the National ...
A mufti reading in his prayer stool, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1900) A mufti (/ ˈ m ʌ f t i /; Arabic: مفتي, listen ⓘ) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion on a point of Islamic law . [1] [2] The act of issuing fatwas is called iftāʾ. [3]
The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. The office originated in the early modern era in the Ottoman Empire and has been later adopted in a number of modern countries.
A muftiate [a] is an administrative territorial entity, mainly in the post-Soviet and Southeast European states, under the supervision of a mufti. In the post-Yugoslavia states, spiritual administrations similar to the muftiate are called riyasat. A grand muftiate is more significant than a muftiate, and is presided over by a grand mufti.
Uthman Al-Khamees studied at the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, [5] holding a master's degree in the hadith (traditions of Muhammad), with a thesis on the hadiths contained in the matter of the two tribes (Al-Hasan and Al-Husayn). [5]
In British English [a], Mufti is plain or ordinary clothes, especially when worn by one who normally wears, or has long worn, a military or other uniform, ...
In 1969, King Faisal abolished the office of Grand Mufti and replaced it with a Ministry of Justice. The position was restored in 1993 with the appointment of Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz. [6] The current mufti Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Sheikh was appointed in 1999 by King Fahd after the death of Ibn Baz.
Nahiem Ajmal (born c. 1979), commonly known by the kunya Abu Layth, is a British Islamic scholar of a Pakistani background based in Birmingham.A follower of the Maliki school of jurisprudence and the Ash'ari school of theology of Sunni Islam, Abu Layth is a mufti and has received criticism from other Islamic scholars for many of his controversial views.