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Questioning SecularismIslam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt$
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Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt

Hussein Ali Agrama

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780226010687

Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: January 2014

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226010700.001.0001

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What Is a Fatwa?: Authority, Tradition, and the Care of the Self

What Is a Fatwa?: Authority, Tradition, and the Care of the Self

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(p.160) Chapter Five What Is a Fatwa?: Authority, Tradition, and the Care of the Self
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Questioning Secularism
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Hussein Ali Agrama

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University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226010700.003.0006

This chapter describes the style and manner of the muftis in dispensing their fatwas, in connection with the concepts and understood goals of the Fatwa Council. It offers a better understanding of the nature of the Fatwa Council's authority, and the general lack of suspicion within it.

Keywords:   muftis, fatwas, Fatwa Council

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