Sentence examples for fatwa of from inspiring English sources

"Then came the fatwa of the marja [Iraq's highest Shia religious authority].

In an interview, Kashmir's top religious leader, Grand Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad, mentioned the possibility of issuing a fatwa of death against the filmmaker after a full investigation.

A story on the fatwa mix-up, originally posted to the conservative Tabnak site under the headline "When the fatwa of the leader of the revolution is also filtered," was later removed, Ms. Esfandiari said.

He invoked a fatwa of the 14th-century scholar of Wahhabism, Ibn Tamiya, who had decreed that if the governor does not change or clean up places of corruption, the people have the right to do so.

In his self-styled fatwa of 1998, for instance, in which he calls on all Muslims to kill Americans, he employed an ornate style known as saj, the rhymed prose in which the Koran was written and in which most premodern literary Arabic was composed.

A few months after I had converted, I remember being rather nonplussed when confronted by an angry young man who demanded that I support the so-called fatwa of blasphemy and summary execution against Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses.

A cleric named Mufti Khalid Shah declared a fatwa on employees of the UN, WHO and all other foreign organisations.

Salman Rushdie's son Zafar was present and Edna offered "fatwas of love" to him.

He also keeps a CD-ROM, "Fatwas of Ibn Tamaya," the 14th-century scholar and éminence grise of Wahhabism, upon whom much of Saudi law is based.

The democratic ethic, although much more common in Egypt than many Westerners believe, is not as well anchored as it is among the Shiites of Iran or in the fatwas of Grand Ayatollah Sistani.

When Amit Gupta, a 32-year-old Bay area technology entrepreneur, was diagnosed with the same cancer as Ujjwal's, the imams of social media quickly issued terse fatwas of support.