All 18 Uses of
fatwa
in
Three Cups of Tea
- —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.†
Chpt 15
- He has no business pronouncing a fatwa!†
Chpt 15
- "Mortenson knew from the venom in Parvi's voice how serious a problem the fatwa presented.†
Chpt 15
- Subject: fatwa declared on Greg Mortenson, text: Greetings from Bozeman!†
Chpt 15
- 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.
Chpt 15 *fatwa = ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
- FYI: a fatwa is a religious ruling.†
Chpt 15
- ' "Ghulam Parvi spoke calmly to the group about the fatwa, his anger having cooled to practicality.†
Chpt 15
- "Parvi also said that Sheikh Mohammed, a religious scholar and rival of the sher of Chakpo, had, along with his son, Mehdi Ali, petitioned for a CAI school to be built in his village of Hemasil and written a letter to the Supreme Council of Ayatollahs in Qom, asking Iran's leading clerics, the ultimate authority to the world's Shia, to rule on whether the fatwa was justified.†
Chpt 15
- With the fatwa dangling over his head like a scimitar, who knew how long he would be allowed to work in Pakistan?†
Chpt 15
- "I've contacted the sher of Chakpo and asked him to withdraw his fatwa," Syed Abbas said, sighing, "but he refused.†
Chpt 15
- When I look back at everything we accomplished that year, despite the fatwa, I have no idea how I did it, how I had that kind of energy.†
Chpt 15
- "The fatwa, is it…""Forget all that small-minded, small-village nonsense," Parvi said, beaming.†
Chpt 16
- Agha Mubarek had issued a fatwa, banning Mortenson from working in Pakistan.†
Chpt 21
- When they refused, he had it destroyed and issued his fatwa.†
Chpt 21
- Mehdi was an activist for education whose father, Sheikh Mohammed, had written asking for a ruling from Iran after the first fatwa had been declared against Mortenson.†
Chpt 22
- I told them Agha Mubarek has no business making a fatwa on a saintly man like Dr. Greg.†
Chpt 22
- The court declared Agha Mubarek's fatwa illegitimate and ordered him to pay for the eight hundred bricks his men destroyed.†
Chpt 22
- Mortenson had also won a landmark victory in Shariat Court, overcome his second fatwa, and humbled his most vocal opponent.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(fatwa) a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority