A collection of religious interpretations addressing the most debated topics of Islamic tradition today: gender, sexuality, non-Muslims, violence, secularism. The fatwas and opinions have been selected by the Islamopedia Online team because they represent the most frequent questions asked by Muslims on the internet as well as the most frequent types of answers that they receive. Their selection was the outcome of a systematic browsing during the years 2008-2009 of the most significant websites providing religious responses to Muslims across languages (Urdu/Arabic/Farsi/English) and countries from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. We have also added fatwas issued by religious authorities that are not responses to questions asked by Muslims but have been given national or international audience such as fatwas from Grand Muftis of different countries or councils of clerics.

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I. Inside religious interpretations you will find fatwas, opinions and news on contemporary social and political issues. A fatwa is a religious "responsa" given by a legitimate religious authority. It can be a response to a question asked by an individual or a response to a specific issue to assert the status of this issue within the Islamic tradition (for example the fatwa of the grand mufti of Egypt on nuclear weapons)

An opinion is the personal position of a religious authority on a specific issue or topic that does not follow the rigorous format of a "responsa" but can still be influential because of the legitimacy of the religious authority or issuing body.

On Islamopedia Online, the usage of the term "fatwa" is a reflection of the current range of meaning in cyberspace and in common parlance. In this regard, the contemporary usage differs from the classical definition of Fatwa, at least in the Sunni tradition.