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On October 31, 2023, The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), in a fatwa, urged all Arab and Muslim nations to support Hamas in its military campaign against Israel, as well as the Palestinian resistance groups in the West Bank and Israel, as well as the nations that border Israel, such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. [62]
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, a group of Middle Eastern Islamic scholars issued a fatwa permitting Muslims serving in the U.S. army to participate in military action against Muslim countries, in response to a query from a U.S. Army Muslim chaplain. This fatwa illustrated two increasingly widespread practices.
This is by responding to the fatwa-seeking public in areas of 'aqeedah, 'ibaadah and social issues. It will be called: The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fataawa (al-Lajnah ad-Daa'imah lil-Buhooth al-'Ilmiyyah wal-Iftaa.)” It is possible to write to the Permanent Committee asking for a fatwa on a specific topic.
In 2010, Saudi King Abdullah decreed that only officially approved religious scholars would be allowed to issue fatwas in Saudi Arabia, primarily the members the Council of Senior Scholars. [2] At least one Islamic fatwa website Islam-QA run by Saudi Islamic scholar Muhammad Al-Munajid was banned in Saudi Arabia as a result. [2] [7]
Manzur Nu'mani — issued a fatwa in December 1987 declaring Shia kuffar (non-believers), which was endorsed by hundreds of prominent Deobandi scholars in India and Pakistan. [17] Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz — Several of his fatwas denounced Shiites as atheists and apostates, [18] and, among other rulings, forbade Sunni marriage to Shiites. [19]
Fatawa-e-Rashidiya is a collection of Islamic legal verdicts, or fatwas, written by the Indian scholar Rashid Ahmad Gangohi in the late 19th century. It contains over 2000 fatwas on various topics related to Islamic beliefs, practices, and customs, and played an important role in eradicating false innovations and un-Islamic customs from Muslim society.
Masjid-e Rashid, Darul Uloom Deoband. Fiqh is a term used in Islamic jurisprudence to refer to the understanding and application of Islamic law. [1] It is the process of understanding and interpreting the sources of Islamic law, which include the Quran, Sunnah (the actions and sayings of Muhammad), the consensus of the scholars (), and analogical reasoning (), in order to derive legal rulings ...
The Amman Message was a statement, signed in 2005 in Jordan by nearly 200 prominent Islamic jurists, which served as a "counter-fatwa" against a widespread use of takfir (excommunication) by jihadist groups to justify jihad against rulers of Muslim-majority countries. The Amman Message recognized eight legitimate schools of Islamic law and ...