fatwa

plural fatwas · plural rare fatawa · alternative fetwa · alternative fetwah · alternative fatwah · alternative futwa · alternative futwah

1. IslamA formal legal decree, opinion, or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic judicial authority.

   The website contains fatwas on points of Islamic law that arise in court cases.

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   In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended.

   2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN

2. broadlyproscribedIslamA decree issued by a mufti or other Islamic judicial authority that a person should be put to death, usually as punishment for committing apostasy or blasphemy.
3. broadlylifestyleA formal decree or ruling, or statement, issued by an authority of a religion other than Islam.
4. figurativelyinformalAn emphatic decree or opinion, especially one which condemns or criticizes.

present singular third person fatwas · participle present fatwaing · participle past fatwaed · past fatwaed · participle past fatwa'd · past fatwa'd

1. raretransitiveTo issue a fatwa (noun sense 1) against (someone); specifically (loosely, erroneous), a fatwa imposing a ban or a death sentence.

   One wonders why these terrorists are not fatwaed.

   2002, South Asia Politics, volume 1, New Delhi: Rashtriya Jagriti Sansthan, →OCLC, page 30, column 2

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   Unlike many writers and artists, Chahine had not been fatwaed by the militants, but he felt threatened nevertheless.

   1999, Mary Anne Weaver, “Life in the Alleys”, in A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey through the World of Militant Islam, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 141

   'I'm just beginning one,' says famously-fatwaed author of new novel [subtitle]

   2013 April 15, Katie Van Syckle, “Q&A: Salman Rushdie Talks ‘Midnight’s Children,’ Other Projects”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2024

   Ask Salman Rushdie. He was fatwaed for linking facts and fiction in ways that the mullahs say they should not be linked.

   2015, Mohamed Gibril Sesay, “The Youth of Paradise”, in This Side of Nothingness […] (Sierra Leonean Writers Series), Freetown, Sierra Leone: Karantha Publishers, →ISBN, page 186