Examples of “fatwa” in a Sentence

noun A formal legal ruling or opinion issued by a mufti or other Islamic judicial authority.

• The scholar issued a fatwa on the permissibility of the new banking product.
• Muslims sometimes seek a fatwa from a local mufti on a point of religious law.
• The council of scholars published a fatwa clarifying the rule.

noun A ruling by an Islamic authority calling for a person to be put to death, usually over alleged apostasy or blasphemy.

• The author went into hiding after a fatwa was issued against him.
• News of the fatwa calling for his death spread around the world.
• Governments condemned the fatwa as an incitement to violence.