Fatwas in example sentence

Montazeri, whose status as Grand Ayatollah (the most senior of Shia Muslim theologians) gave him more religious authority than Khamenei, challenged Khamenei’s qualifications to issue fatwas (Islamic religious rulings) or to succeed Khomeini as Supreme Leader.

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It was just a custom and traditions that are enshrined in rigid religious fatwas and imposed on women.

And it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fatwas based on wrong interpretation of the sharia law, or the religious laws.

This systematic neutering of the Shia in Saudi Arabia is legitimised by the Wahhabi religious establishment and supported by numerous fatwas denouncing them as heretics.

For example, issuing fatwas , or religious edicts, is legitimately undertaken by those whose high standing is acknowledged by the whole Ummah , or Muslim community.

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