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Firman vs Fatwa - What's the difference?

firman | fatwa |

As a proper noun firman

is .

As a noun fatwa is

(label) a legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other islamic lawyer.

As a verb fatwa is

(rare|transitive) to make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence.

firman

English

(wikipedia firman)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey.
  • * 1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , IV:
    • his Sublimity's firman , The most imperative of sovereign spells, / Which every body does without who can [...].
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 134:
    • He managed to obtain from the vizier a firman bearing the Emir's personal seal and ordering all Bokharan officials to assist the party in every way possible.
  • * 2005 : International Law And The Great War , Coleman Phillipson
    • It will be noted that the title of Sultan was adopted partly because that of Khedive had been conferred by an Ottoman firman .

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    fatwa

    English

    (wikipedia fatwa)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (label) A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer.
    • I think the fatwas on that website are totally unreliable .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence.

    • Alternative forms

    * fatwah

    Anagrams

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