Sample Sentences forfatwa (editor-reviewed)
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The fatwa called for Rushdie's execution for a book that insulted Islam.fatwa = ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
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Bin Laden issued a fatwa that amounted to a declaration of war against the United States.fatwa = a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
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Dr. Farooq was an Islamic scholar and former member of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, and as one of the biggest voices against Talibanization he had even issued a fatwa against suicide attacks. (source)fatwa = ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
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The panelists were discussing a recent Islamic State fatwa regarding sexual relations between males and their female slaves. (source)
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But that problem was solved when a group of radical clerics in Khartoum issued a fatwa in April 1992. (source)
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Parvi said that a local sher, a religious leader who doesn't like the idea of us educating girls, just declared a fatwa on me, trying to prevent CAI from building any more schools in Pakistan. (source)
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He knew not everyone would understand his ironic version of a holy text; what he could not imagine was that he could be so far misunderstood as to induce a fatwa, a sentence of death, to he issued against him. (source)fatwa = ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
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Many students argued that the book should be banned and burned and the fatwa upheld. (source)
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Mortenson knew from the venom in Parvi's voice how serious a problem the fatwa presented.† (source)
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Two days later Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's assassination. (source)
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Subject: fatwa declared on Greg Mortenson, text: Greetings from Bozeman!† (source)
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In our province Maulana Sufi Mohammad, who had fought in Afghanistan against the Russians, issued a fatwa against the US. (source)
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Agha Mubarek had issued a fatwa, banning Mortenson from working in Pakistan.† (source)
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When they refused, he had it destroyed and issued his fatwa.† (source)
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I told them Agha Mubarek has no business making a fatwa on a saintly man like Dr. Greg.† (source)
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—Rabindranath Tagore AT 3:00 A.M., in the Central Asia Institute's Bozeman "office," a converted laundry room in the basement of his home, Greg Mortenson learned that the sher of Chakpo, a village in the Braldu Valley, had declared a fatwa against him.† (source)
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