Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetwas
Literary usage of Fetwas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various by John Ramsay McCulloch, Frederick Martin (1866)
"The most remarkable printed collections of fetwas (decisions) arc by Mufti ...
contains several thousand fetwas of 30 muftis in the 18th Century. ..."
2. Sketches of Turkey in 1831 and 1832 by James Ellsworth De Kay (1833)
"The fetwas are somewhat similar to our law reports or decisions, but they possess
the rare merit of not being encumbered with the hair-splitting opinions of ..."
3. Old Testament and Semitic Studies in Memory of William Rainey Harper by William Rainey Harper (1908)
"To this period belongs the collection of fetwas published by Ahmad ibn 'Abd ...
From these fetwas it appears that the synagogues had been closed at some ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1836)
"The passing of fetwas is the office of a separate class of judicial functionaries,
the muftis. In his duty of extending the faith of Mohammed by waging war ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"fortified by three successive fetwas from the mufti, who declared that the
Mamlukes—by their alliance with the Persian, ..."
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