Meanings of issue a fatwa in English

The poems reveal the ayatollah as a mystic, albeit one who can issue a fatwa, making him both censor and creator.

Since then, a government-backed cleric has issued a fatwa against the girls.

Earlier this year, clerics issued a fatwa against challenging the royal family's authority.

He had issued a fatwa there against any Americans in Somalia.

Mohammad Ahmad Husein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, issued a fatwa approving the pilgrimages.

August 1996 - Bin Laden issues a fatwa, or religious decree, that U.S. military personnel should be killed.

The Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, which demanded his death, and Rushdie was forced to go into hiding.

In 2008, the Malaysian government issued a fatwa banning some features of yoga practice including the chanting of mantras.

However the Ulema Council, or MUI, issued a fatwa prohibiting smoking in public places or by pregnant women and children.

Slideshow (3 images) Mohammad Ahmad Husein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, issued a fatwa approving the pilgrimages.

They issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, outlawing suicide bombings and demanding that Taliban militants restore peace to allow foreign troops to leave.

They say only Muslims could carry out such work and an influential Muslim cleric issued a fatwa this week against using money from the army.

Describing the sequence of events that led to the talks, Obama added: Iran's supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons.

In Jordan the leading Muslim cleric, the mufti, has issued a fatwa against watching the eclipse, on the grounds that the Koran prohibits self-inflicted injuries.

On 26 May 2014, Maqdisi deemed the negotiations dead and, backed by his fellow al-Qaida ideologues, issued a fatwa against Isis.

It ordered Algerian families to stop playing music at weddings, and issued a fatwa, or religious edict, stating that music is "the sound of evil."