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  • noun Plural form of fatwa.

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  • Yet last year, under the noses of warders, it is said that Qatada and Adel Abdel Bary, leader of the UK branch of Egyptian 'Islamic Jihad', were able to smuggle out a series of 'fatwas' - religious decrees - legitimising attacks by al Qaeda.

    Zee News : India National 2009

  • His fatwas are the nearest equivalent that al-Qaeda has to an ex cathedra statement from the pope.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • His fatwas are the nearest equivalent that al-Qaeda has to an ex cathedra statement from the pope.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • His fatwas are the nearest equivalent that al-Qaeda has to an ex cathedra statement from the pope.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • His fatwas are the nearest equivalent that al-Qaeda has to an ex cathedra statement from the pope.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • (He holds the same rank as Iraq's Ali Sistani; Shiites recognize a small number of "grand ayatollahs" who issue religious rulings known as fatwas and serve as objects of "emulation.")

    A Dialogue With Lebanon's Ayatollah 2009

  • But Osama bin Laden does issues these things called fatwas, these religious decrees.

    CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2004 2004

  • At the institution's ministry-size headquarters in Ankara, state-employed astronomers calculate prayer times around the world, while state-educated theologians pore over the hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad in the library and issue the religious rulings known as fatwas.

    NYT > Home Page By SUSANNE GUSTEN 2011

  • The Westminster-based think-tank Civitas found that Muslim clerics have been handing out hundreds of Sharia judgments - known as fatwas - through mosques around the country.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • This led to a very rigid reading of the Koran and also to a series of fatwas, meaning legal opinions, that scholars could no longer question.

    CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2007 2007

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