Fatwas (Religious Legal Instruments)

Opinions given by Muslim jurists and scholars in answer to a question of religious law, such as the ruling against Salman Rushdie, the Mardin fatwa of Ibn Taymiyya and the Amman Message. An entry belongs here when its article presents a fatwa. The group page lists texts of the same legal kind together so that a reader can compare how religious authority and state power are put into writing. Entries are placed by what their own article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group that its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.