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Politics : The Clown-Free Bible Study Zone
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To: S. maltophilia who wrote (1698)10/9/2010 2:03:47 PM
From: S. maltophilia   of 2103
 
A Glut of Fatwas Spurs Saudi King to Impose Curbs
.....Saudi media have speculated that the king's resolve may have been hardened by a recent fatwa that provoked particular public uproar. Sheik Abdul-Mohsen al-Obeikanruled that if a woman needs to appear without her veil in front of an adult, unrelated male, she has the option of breast-feeding him, because it establishes a mother-son bond in Islamic tradition. That reasoning has been heard in a few fatwas by other sheiks, but is rejected by.......
nytimes.com

OTOH:
There is a binding rule that saves the fatwa pronouncements from creating judicial havoc, whether within a Muslim country or at the level of the Islamic world in general: it is unanimously agreed that a fatwa is only binding on its author. This was underlined by Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Al-Obeikan, vice-minister of Justice of Saudi Arabia, in an interview with the Arabic daily "Asharq al awsat", as recently as on July 9, 2006, in a discussion of the legal value of a fatwa by the Islamic Fiqh Academy (IFA) on the subject of misyar marriage, which had been rendered by IFA on April 12, 2006.[4] He said : "Even the fatawas of the official Ifta authority (official Saudi fatwa institute) is binding on no one, whether individuals or the State."
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