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One of the most misunderstood aspects of Islamic legal practice and thought is the role and position of fatwas or legal opinions. This three-volume reference work offers a comprehensive overview of and detailed insights into: -the concept of the fatwa as a vehicle of legal opinion-making in Islam -its historical role in different parts of the Muslim world -and contemporary debates reflecting both the fatwa's enduring relevance and its ongoing contestation among Muslims today.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: The Fatwa: Legal Concept, Instrument of Law, and Political Tool
Carool Kersten
1 From Fatwas to Furu': Growth and Change in Islamic Substantive Law
Wael B. Hallaq
2 The Significance of Istifta' in the Fatwa Discourse
Muhammad Khalid Masud
3 The Shifting Moral Universes of the Islamic Tradition of Ifta': A Diachronic Study of Four Adab al-Fatwa Manuals
Alexandre Caeiro
4 Is al-Andalus Different? Continuity as Contested, Constructed, and Performed across Three Maliki Fatwas
Jocelyn Hendrickson
5 The Development and Role of the Sehulislam in Early Ottoman History
Michael M. Pixley
6 Some Aspects of the Ottoman Fetva (Plates I-III)
Uriel Heyd
7 "By the Virtue of Your Knowledge": Scientific Materialism and the Fatwas of Rashid Rida
Daniel A. Stolz
8 The Voice of the 'Ulamâ': Fatwas and Religious Authority in Indonesia
Nico J. G. Kaptein
9 Fatwa and the Internet: A Study of the Influence of Muslim Religious Scholars on Internet Diffusion in Saudi Arabia
Ali A. Al-Kandari and Ali Dashti
10 Cyberspace as Emerging Muslim Discursive Space? Online Fatawa on Women and Gender Relations and its Impact on Muslim Family Law Norms
Shaheen Sardar Ali
11 Ethics, Tradition, Authority: Toward an Anthropology of the Fatwa
Hussein Ali Agrama
12 Beyond Text: Fluid Fatwas and Embodied Muftis
Mashal Saif
Contents Introduction: The Historical Role of Fatwas in Islamic Legal Opinion-Making
Carool Kersten
CREED AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
1 Ibn Taymiyyah and the Satanic Verses
Shahab Ahmed
2 Why Did the Scholars of al-Andalus Distrust al-Ghazali?
Ibn Rushd al-Jadds Fatwa on Awliya' Allah
Delfina Serrano Ruano
DISSENT, HERESY AND SECTARIANISM
3 The Fatwas and the Nusayri/Alawis of Syria
Yvette Talhamy
4 The Trial of Mulla 'Ali Bastami: A Combined Sunni-Shi'i Fatwa against the Bab
Moojan Momen
5 Omani Fatwas and Zanzibari Cosmopolitanism: Modernity and Religious Authority in the Indian Ocean
Amal N. Ghazal
RELIGIOUS PLURALITY AND RELATIONS WITH NON-MUSLIMS
6 Muslims in Norman Sicily: The Evidence of Imam al-Mazari's Fatwas
Sarah Davis-Secord
7 The Case of the Overlooked Fatwa
Khaleel Mohammed
MATERIAL, SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL ISSUES
8 Christian Impurity versus Economic Necessity: A Fifteenth-Century Fatwa on European Paper
Leor Halevi
9 Ibn Taymiyya on Astrology: Annotated Translation of Three Fatwas
Yahya J. Michot
10 Sultan, Scholar and Sufi: Authority and Power Relations in al-Suyuti's Fatwa on Waqf
Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez
FATWAS AND POLITICS
11 Fatwa and Propaganda: Contemporary Muslim Responses to the Sudanese Mahdiyya
Fergus Nicoll
Contents Fatwas Today: Continuing Relevance and Contestation
Carool Kersten
THE RUSHDIE AFFAIR
1 "Fatwa on the Bunny": News Language and the Creation of Meaning about the Middle East
Fred Vultee
2 Is the "Fatwa" a Fatwa?
Sadik Jalal Al-Azm
3 The Fatwa and the Philosophe: Rushdie, Voltaire and Islam
Adam Perchard
WORLDVIEWS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
4 Interpreting the Broader Context and Meaning of Bin Laden's Fatwa
Magnus Ranstorp
5 Resurrecting Siyar through Fatwas? (Re) Constructing "Islamic International Law" in a Post-(Iraq) Invasion World
Shaheen Sardar Ali
6 Globalising Iran's Fatwa against Nuclear Weapons
Seyed Hossein Mousavian
MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY FATWA PRACTICE
7 Islam in the Digital Age: Counselling and Fatwas at the Click of a Mouse
Mohamed Chawki
8 Waqf in Historical Perspective: Online Fatawa and Contemporary Discourses by Muslim Scholars
Sabrina Joseph
9 The Legal Implications of "Fatwa Shopping" in the Islamic Finance Industry: Problems, Perceptions and Prospects
Umar A. Oseni, Abu Umar Faruq Ahmad and M. Kabir Hassan
THE POLITICS OF MINORITY FIQH, DISCRIMINATION AND GENDER ISSUES
10 The Making of the Fatwa: The Production of Islamic Legal Expertise in Europe
Alexandre Caerio
11 The Soweto Fatwa: A Muslim Response to a Watershed Event in South Africa
Gerrie Lubbe
12 Contesting the Illicit: Gender and the Politics of Fatwas in Bangladesh
Elora Shehabuddin
13 Masculinity, Homosexuality and the Defence of Islam: A Case Study of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Media Fatwas
Scott Kugle and Stephen Hunt
14 Islamic Shari'a Law, Neo-Traditionalist Muslim Scholars and Transgender Sex-Reassignment Surgery: A Study of Ayatollah Khomeini's and Sheikh al-Tantawi's Fatwas
Mehrdad Alipour
15 The Majelis Ulama's Fatwa on Abortion in Contemporary Indonesia
Mohamed Abdun Nasir and Asnawi
BIOETHCIS AND LIFE SCIENCES
16 The Ongoing Charity of Organ Donation: Contemporary English Sunni Fatwas on Organ Donation and Blood Transfusion
Stef van den Branden and Bert Broeckaert
17 Bioethics in the Malay-Muslim Community in Malaysia: A Study of the Formulation of Fatwa on Genetically Modified Food by the National Fatwa Council
Noor Munirah Isa, Azizan Baharuddin, Saadan Man and Lee Wei Chang
