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plural fatwas or fatawa
(Islam) A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. examples
third-person singular simple present fatwas, present participle fatwaing, simple past and past participle fatwaed
(rare, transitive) To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence. quotations
Unlike many writers and artists, Chahine had not been fatwaed by the militants, but he felt threatened nevertheless.
2000, Mary Anne Weaver, A Portrait of Egypt, page 141
One wonders why these terrorists are not fatwaed.
2002, South Asia Politics - Volume 1; Volume 4, page 30
'I'm just beginning one,' says famously-fatwaed author of new novel.
2013 April 15, Katie Van Syckle, “Q&A: Salman Rushdie Talks 'Midnight's Children,' Other Projects”, in Rolling Stone
He was fatwaed for linking facts and fiction in ways that the mullahs say they should not be linked.
2015, Mohamed Gibril Sesay, This Side of Nothingness, page 186