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Fatwa in Indonesia

2017
This book looks at fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto. It is an in-depth exploration of three fatwa-making agencies-Majelis Ulama Indonesia, Lajnah Bahth al-Masail Nahdlatul Ulama, and Majelis Tarjih Muhammadiyah-all of which are highly influential in shaping religious thought and the lives of Muslims in ...
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A “good” fatwa

BMJ, 2002
The word “fatwa” has come to have a rather sinister meaning in many Western countries. This misconception has arisen, in large part, as a result of one author and his work and the publicity given to a resulting fatwa. A fatwa is simply a legal opinion in Islam given by a mufti or other religious leader on a specific issue, and this account describes ...
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After the Fatwa

2014
We do not have, on the one hand, a community with a certain picture of the world that expresses itself in a definable system of symbols and, on the other hand an audience of publicists or academics that interprets and presents this system of symbols. Better, this is only half the truth.
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“Fatwa on the Bunny”

Journal of Communication Inquiry, 2006
How did fatwa, once an unambiguous, simple term for a ruling on a question of Islamic religious law, come to mean “death sentence” in U.S. news language and popular culture? This article uses content and discourse analyses to trace this newly created meaning through a series of gatekeeping failures to a position from which its more ominous meaning is ...
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The story of fatwa

Interventions, 2002
(2002). The story of fatwa. Interventions: Vol. 4, Spivak's Critique of Postcolonial Reason, pp. 237-242.
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