- “Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi [of Iran] issued a fatwa forbidding governments to use violence against demonstrators demanding their legitimate rights.”
- “The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday about a request for a fatwa seeking the assassination of its head in Sudan, as loyalists of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir stepped up opposition to a draft deal for a new civilian government.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
- “The Eid and Friday prayers will be performed separately [if the Eid prayer falls on a Friday], according to a statement issued by the Fatwa Council of the United Arab Emirates.“
- “An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja [Nigeria], has dissolved a 15-year-old marriage between a public servant, Okpanachi Yahaya and his estranged wife, Zainab Adejoh over infidelity,” in a case that applied Islamic law.
- “The Supreme Judiciary Council (SJC) [of Qatar] stressed that law No. 4 for 2023 on the procedures for dividing inheritances issued by HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Wednesday aims to facilitate the litigation procedures for heirs, speed up the division of inheritances, and avoid the legal, social, and economic issues arising from delaying its distribution to heirs.”
- Last week, Islamic Law in the News Roundup mistakenly reported on a news story purporting to reference a “fatwā” by Iran’s Supreme Leader concerning artificial intelligence. The story was a product of satire published on April 1. We apologize for the oversight and have removed it from the roundup; and, in the spirit of April Fool’s, this note is to underscore that there is no such fatwā against AI (yet!).