Cases and Fatwās Roundup: a list of court cases, decrees and other opinions relating to Islamic law issued by legal authorities, Islamic institutions, and jurists.
“Priya, who hails from Palakkad, Kerala was found guilty of murdering a Yemeni citizen in 2017. She was apprehended while trying to flee the country and sentenced to death in 2018. Currently, Priya’s mother is in Yemen, trying to waive her death penalty by paying ‘blood money’ to the murdered man’s family.” For more content… CONTINUE READING
“A court in Pakistan has rejected an appeal by former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to suspend a February ruling that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic law.” “The Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today welcomed the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling against a taxpayer-funded religious public charter school as a win… CONTINUE READING
“The Human Milk Bank at the Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology (SICHN), a pioneering initiative in Pakistan, has been temporarily suspended following a revised fatwa from Dar-ul-Uloom Karachi.”
“A local leadership of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in Kerala has issued a fatwa to its women cadre prohibiting them from attending roadshows[.]”
“[A]n Islamic seminary in Lucknow [India] has issued a fatwa (an edict by a recognised religious authority on a point of Islamic law) asking people not to cut trees and burn crops as part of initiatives to curb global warming.” After “[t]he Madhya Pradesh High Court [India] delivered a complex judgment on inter-faith marriage [i]n… CONTINUE READING
“Kuwait has issued a new fatwa (a ruling from the point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority) that will prohibit companies and banks from marketing their products in mosques.” “The Madhya Pradesh High Court [India] has delivered a complex judgment on inter-faith marriage. In a case involving a Hindu woman and a Muslim… CONTINUE READING
In Pakistan, “[a] writ petition has been filed in the Federal Shariat Court’s Lahore Registry challenging Section 9 of the Muslim Family Law Ordinance, 1961, which requires a man to obtain the consent of his first wife before contracting a second marriage.”
“A Federal Court [in Malaysia] judge has rejected the notion that shariah courts are ‘inferior’ to civil courts. In a supporting judgment issued in a case which saw the apex court dismiss a woman’s challenge to her religious status as a Muslim earlier this month, Justice Abu Bakar Jais said: ‘I am aware there are… CONTINUE READING
“Top clergy [in Indonesia] have issued fatwas, or edicts, on how to rein in climate change. Neighborhood activists are beseeching friends, family and neighbors that environmentalism is embedded in the Quran.” “For those planning to perform Haj[j] this upcoming season, a fatwa has been issued that bans performing the holy pilgrimage without an official permit.… CONTINUE READING
“[A] Kerala-based woman [in India], who said she, though born a Muslim, is now a non-believer, and should be governed by the secular statutes rather than the Sharia law,” petitioned the Supreme Court of India. “The Lahore High Court (LHC) [in Pakistan] has ruled that a man cannot marry the sister of his former wife… CONTINUE READING
