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Arabic term or phrase:
fatwa
English translation:
formal legal opinion
Added to glossary by
Fuad Yahya
Oct 22, 2001 17:54
22 yrs ago
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Arabic term
fatwa
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we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies-civilian and military-is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim."
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5 +4 | Fatwa, a formal legal opinion | Timothy Gregory |
4 | fatwa is fatwa!!!!!!!!! | Albert Golub |
4 | Legal decision, opinion or verdict | Safaa Roumani |
2 | opinion, finding, in Islamic law. | Colin Brayton |
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Fatwa, a formal legal opinion
Term from Islamic law
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fatwa is fatwa!!!!!!!!!
good luck!!!
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Legal decision, opinion or verdict
It implies previous consideration of a judicial or learned question, or a matter causing doubt, debate or controvesy.
It's supposed to be given by someone knowledgable in the field of the matter in question.
It's supposed to be given by someone knowledgable in the field of the matter in question.
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opinion, finding, in Islamic law.
From a root f-t-y that means "youth, adolescent", possibly because the causative form IV means "to make young." It is a finding about the proper action to take in circumstances not explicitly dealt with by the Qu'ran Sunna and Hadith (the records of the Prophet's sayings and the huge corpus of prior scholarly interpretations of them). Thus, it is a making of new law, a way of legislating on unforeseen cases in a manner consistent with tradition.
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