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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar;
- Example: "bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

fatwa \fat"wa\, fatwah \fat"wah\, n. Same as fetwah. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fetwah \Fet"wah\, n. [Ar.] A written decision of a Turkish mufti some point of law; also applied to opinions by certain other Islamic religious authorities on points of Islamic law, such as in Iran. [Also spelled fatwah and fatwa.] --Whitworth. [1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fatwah n 1: (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar; "bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States"