Mufti, the Glossary
A mufti (مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion (fatwa) on a point of Islamic law (sharia).[1]
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80 relations: Al-Andalus, Al-Manār (magazine), Amman Message, Arabic grammar, Colonialism, Companions of the Prophet, Council of the Islamic Revolution, Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah, Early modern period, Faqīh, Fard, Fatwa, Fiqh, Grand Mufti, Greater Khorasan, Gulf War, Hadith, Halakha, History of Islam, Ijazah, Ijtihad, Imam, International Islamic Fiqh Academy, Internet, Iran, Islamic Consultative Assembly, Islamic sciences, Islamic studies, IslamOnline, Jihad, Jihadism, List of fatwas, Madhhab, Madrasa, Mamluk Sultanate, Marja', Mirza Shirazi, Modern era, Muftiate, Mughal Empire, Muhammad, Muhammad al-Mahdi, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Muhtasib, Murad V, Muslim world, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Osama bin Laden, Posek, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, ... Expand index (30 more) »
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Al-Manār (magazine)
Al-Manār (المنار; 'The Lighthouse'), was an Islamic magazine, written in Arabic, and was founded, published and edited by Rashid Rida from 1898 until his death in 1935 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Amman Message
The Amman Message (translit) is a statement calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world that was issued on 9 November 2004 (27 Ramadan 1425 AH) by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, and his advisor Sheikh Izz-Eddine Al-Tamimi.
Arabic grammar
Arabic grammar (النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language.
Colonialism
Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.
Companions of the Prophet
The Companions of the Prophet (lit) were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime, while being a Muslim and were physically in his presence.
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Council of the Islamic Revolution
The Council of the Islamic Revolution (Šūrā-ye enqelāb-e eslāmi) was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Iranian Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned to Iran.
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Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah
Egypt's Dar al-Ifta (دار الإفتاء المصرية) is an Egyptian Islamic advisory, justiciary and governmental body established as a centre for Islam and Islamic legal research in Egypt in 1313 AH / 1895 CE.
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Early modern period
The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.
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Faqīh
A faqīh (fuqahā, فقيه;: ‏فقهاء&lrm) is an Islamic jurist, an expert in fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic Law. Mufti and faqīh are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia and islamic legal occupations.
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Fard
(فرض) or (فريضة) or fardh in Islam is a religious duty commanded by God. Mufti and fard are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Fatwa
A fatwa (translit; label) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. Mufti and fatwa are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Fiqh
Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence. Mufti and Fiqh are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Grand Mufti
The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. Mufti and Grand Mufti are religious leadership roles.
Greater Khorasan
Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.
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Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Hadith
Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.
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Halakha
Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.
History of Islam
The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization.
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Ijazah
An ijazah (الإِجازَة, "permission", "authorization", "license"; plural: ijazahs or ijazat) is a license authorizing its holder to transmit a certain text or subject, which is issued by someone already possessing such authority. Mufti and ijazah are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Ijtihad
Ijtihad (اجتهاد) is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a legal question.
Imam
Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position. Mufti and Imam are islamic honorifics and religious leadership roles.
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International Islamic Fiqh Academy
International Islamic Fiqh Academy (مجمع الفقه الإسلامي الدولي.) is an international Islamic institution for the advanced study of Islamic jurisprudence and law based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Islamic Consultative Assembly
The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran.
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Islamic sciences
The Islamic sciences (lit) are a set of traditionally defined religious sciences practiced by Islamic scholars (ʿulamāʾ), aimed at the construction and interpretation of Islamic religious knowledge.
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Islamic studies
Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, which is analogous to related fields such as Jewish studies and Quranic studies.
IslamOnline
IslamOnline is a global Islamic website on the Internet providing services to Muslims and non-Muslims in several languages.
Jihad
Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim. Mufti and Jihad are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Jihadism
Jihadism is a neologism for militant Islamic movements that are perceived as existentially threatening to the West.
List of fatwas
A fatwa (فتوى) is a non-binding legal opinion in Islam, issued by an Islamically qualified religious law specialist, known as a mufti, on a specific issue.
Madhhab
A madhhab (way to act,, pl. label) refers to any school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence. Mufti and madhhab are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning. Mufti and madrasa are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate (translit), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.
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Marja'
Marja (marjiʿ; plural marājiʿ) is a title given to the highest level of Twelver Shia religious cleric, with the authority given by a hawzah (a seminary where Shi'a Muslim scholars are educated) to make legal decisions within the confines of Islamic law for followers and clerics below him in rank. Mufti and Marja' are islamic honorifics and religious leadership roles.
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Mirza Shirazi
Grand Ayatollah Mujaddid Mirza Abu Muhammad Mu'iz al-Din Muhammad-Hassan al-Husayni al-Shirazi (ابومحمد معزالدین محمدحسن حسينى شيرازی;; 25 April 1815 – 20 February 1895), better simply known as Mirza Shirazi (میرزای شیرازی), was an Iraqi-Iranian Shia marja'.
Modern era
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.
Muftiate
A muftiate (alternative spelling: muftiyat; Muftijstvo or Muftiluk; Myftini; мюфтийство; мүфтият; Муфтият; мөфтият; мөфтиәт; muftiat; Муфтіят) is an administrative territorial entity, mainly in the post-Soviet and Southeast European states, under the supervision of a mufti. Mufti and muftiate are islamic legal occupations and religious leadership roles.
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Muhammad al-Mahdi
Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdi (translit) is believed by the Twelver Shia and Sunni Naqshbandiyya to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.
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Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (محمد سيد طنطاوي; 28 October 1928 – 10 March 2010), also referred to as Tantawi, was an influential Islamic scholar in Egypt.
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Muhtasib
A muḥtasib (محتسب, from the root ḥisbah, or "accountability"Sami Zubaida (2005), Law and Power in the Islamic World,, pages 58-60) was "a holder of the office of al-hisbah in classical Islamic administrations", according to Oxford Islamic Studies. Mufti and Muhtasib are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
Murad V
Murad V (translit; V.; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876.
Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Munaẓẓamat at-Taʿāwun al-ʾIslāmī; Organisation de la coopération islamique), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1969.
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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.
Posek
In Jewish law, a posek (פוסק, pl. poskim) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.
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Principles of Islamic jurisprudence
Principles of Islamic jurisprudence (translit) are traditional methodological principles used in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) for deriving the rulings of Islamic law (sharia).
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Profession
A profession is a field of work that has been successfully professionalized.
Qadi
A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works. Mufti and Qadi are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia and islamic honorifics.
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Qajar Iran
The Sublime State of Iran, commonly referred to as Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, Sublime State of Persia, and also the Guarded Domains of Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani.
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
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Rashid Rida
Muhammad Rashid Rida (translit; 1865–1935) was an Islamic scholar, reformer, theologian and revivalist.
Responsa
Responsa (plural of Latin responsum, 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.
Roman law
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 or 24 September 19023 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.
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Safavid Iran
Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.
Salafi movement
The Salafi movement or Salafism is a revival movement within Sunni Islam, which was formed as a socio-religious movement during the late 19th century and has remained influential in the Islamic world for over a century.
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.
Satanic Verses controversy
The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
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Shafi'i school
The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
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Shaykh al-Islām
Shaykh al-Islām (Šayḫ al-Islām; شِیخُالاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; شِیخُالاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; شیخ الاسلام, Şeyhülislam) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences. Mufti and Shaykh al-Islām are islamic honorifics.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shura
Shura (lit) can for example take the form of a council or a referendum. Mufti and Shura are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Tabi'un
The tābiʿūn (اَلتَّابِعُونَ, also accusative or genitive tābiʿīn اَلتَّابِعِينَ, singular tābiʿ تَابِعٌ), "followers" or "successors", are the generation of Muslims who followed the companions (ṣaḥāba) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and thus received their teachings secondhand.
Takfir
Takfir (translit) is an Arabic and Islamic term which denotes excommunication from Islam of one Muslim by another, i.e. accusing another Muslim to be an apostate.
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Taqlid
Taqlid (taqlīd) is an Islamic term denoting the conformity of one person to the teaching of another. Mufti and Taqlid are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie.
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Tobacco Protest
The Persian Tobacco Protest (nehzat-e tanbāku) was a Twelver Shia Muslim revolt in Qajar Iran against an 1890 tobacco concession granted by Emperor Naser al-Din Shah Qajar to the British Empire, granting control over growth, sale, and export of tobacco to an Englishman, Major G. F. Talbot.
Twelver Shi'ism
Twelver Shīʿism (ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة), also known as Imāmiyya (إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising about 90% of all Shīas.
Ulama
In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law. Mufti and ulama are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia, islamic legal occupations and religious leadership roles.
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Ummah
(أُمَّة) is an Arabic word meaning "nation". Mufti and Ummah are Arabic words and phrases in Sharia.
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Usulism
Usulism (translit) is the majority school of Twelver Shia Islam in opposition to the minority Akhbarism.
Vocation
A vocation is an occupation to which a person is especially drawn or for which they are suited, trained or qualified.
Wael Hallaq
Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he has been teaching ethics, law, and political thought since 2009.
See also
Islamic legal occupations
- Faqīh
- Hujjat al-Islam
- Islamic religious police
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Mufti
- Muftiate
- Muhtasibat
- Qadiyat
- Qanungoh Shaikh
- Ulama
- Vekil
Muftis
- Abdul Hamid Efendizadeh
- Abdullah Numan
- Abdus Sattar Akon
- Amah al-Wahid
- Azizul Haq (scholar, born 1903)
- Bashir-ud-din Farooqi
- Ebrahim Desai
- Ismail Ahmedov
- Ismail ibn Musa Menk
- Mufti
- Muhamed Jusufspahić
- Muhammad al-Khalili
- Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
- Mujahidul Islam Qasmi
- Mustafa Sabri
- Nedal Abu Tabaq
- Nemat (militant)
- Nizamuddin Azami
- Osman Velizade
- Rashid Ahmed Ludhianvi
- Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri
- Said Ismagilov
- Salah Mezhiev
- Salman Musaev
- Sead Nasufović
- Zafeeruddin Miftahi
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufti
Also known as Chief Mufti, Muefti, Muftis, Muftī.
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