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| The website was banned in ] because it was issuing independent ''fatwas''. In Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's ] has sole responsibility for issuing ''fatwas''.<ref> '']'' (in Arabic), September 2, 2010</ref> The Council was granted this exclusive authority to issue ''fatwas'' by a royal edict issued in August 2010 (while restrictions had been in place since 2005, they were seldom enforced); this move was described by Christopher Boucek as "the latest example of how the state is working to assert its primacy over the country’s religious establishment."<ref>Christopher Boucek, '']'', October 27, 2010 (accessed November 18, 2013).</ref> | |||
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| Type of site | Salafi Legal/ Religious |
|---|---|
| Available in | Arabic, English, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese, Uighur, French, Spanish, Indonesian, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Russian, Urdu, Turkish and Bengali |
| Created by | Muhammad Al-Munajid |
| URL | islamqa |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 1997; 28 years ago (1997) |
| Current status | Active |
IslamQA is a website providing information regarding Islam in accordance with the Salafi school of thought. It was founded by Muhammad Al-Munajjid and is the most popular Salafi website in the Arab-speaking world.
History
The service was one of the first online fatwa services, if not the first. The launching of IslamQA.info in 1997 by Muhammad Al-Munajjid. The website states that "All questions and answers on this site have been prepared, approved, revised, edited, amended or annotated by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid, the supervisor of this site."
Contents
IslamQA is available in 16 languages, including English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish, German, Bangla, Chinese, Russian, French, and Spanish, the website provides fatawa covering basic tenets of faith, etiquette and morals, Islamic history, and Islamic politics.
The site describes itself in the following manner:
Islam Q&A is an academic, educational, da‘wah website which aims to offer advice and academic answers based on evidence from religious texts in an adequate and easy-to-understand manner... The website welcomes questions from everyone, Muslims and otherwise, about Islamic, psychological and social matters.
The site's vision is to be "an encyclopaedia about Islam". Its aims (as described on the website) are:
- To spread Islam and call people to it.
- To spread Islamic knowledge and dispel ignorance among Muslims.
- To respond to people’s needs by offering advice and answers based on evidence from religious texts.
- To refute the specious arguments of doubters about Islam.
- To advise people concerning day-to-day issues, by giving educational, academic advice about social and other matters.
Methodology
The site describes its methodology as such:
The website promotes the ‘aqeedah (beliefs) of Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa‘ah and the followers of the righteous early generations of Islam (as-salaf as-saalih). It strives to ensure that the answers are based on evidence from the Holy Qur’an and the soundly-narrated (saheeh) prophetic Sunnah, and are taken from the writings of the scholars, including the imams of the four madhhabs, Imam Abu Haneefah, Imam Maalik, Imam ash-Shaafa‘i and Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, as well as other earlier and later scholars, and from the statements of fiqh councils and seekers of knowledge who conduct research in various Islamic specialties. The website avoids getting involved in issues that are of no benefit, such as empty arguments, trading insults and fruitless debates.
See also
- Fiqh
- ifta (islamic term)
- Fatwa Sahabah
- Fatwas in Qatar Islamweb
- Fatwas in the UAE
- Fatwas in Saudi Arabia
- List of fatwas
- Sunni fatwas on Shias
- The Satanic Verses Fatwa
References
- Richard Gauvain (2013). Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God. Routledge. p. 335. ISBN 9780710313560.
- "Women in Islam: Behind the veil and in front of it" Deutsche Welle. 10.01.2016
- Kadri, Sadakat (2012). Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia ... macmillan. p. 207. ISBN 9780099523277.
- IslamQA.info website: "Introduction" Archived 2014-02-23 at the Wayback Machine retrieved September 17, 2016
- Jonathan Schanzer, Steven Miller, Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam, and Social Media, p 51 -52. ISBN 9780981971261
- ^ About Website islamqa.info About our site