Book contents
- Islamic Law in Context
- Islamic Law in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Islamic Legal Theory (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part II Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part III Legal Opinions (Fatwās)
- Chapter 17 Introduction to Part III
- Chapter 18 Ottoman Fatwās on the Substitution of Defunct Endowment Properties, from al-Aqwāl al-Marḍiyya of Qāḍīzādah Muḥammad Ṭāhir (d. 1254/1834)
- Chapter 19 Settling Disputes among Nomads
- Chapter 20 Fatwās on Aspects of Modern Life
- Chapter 21 ‘According to the Qaul Muʿtamad it is Unlawful and Invalid’
- Chapter 22 An Online Fatwā from the Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣriyya on Women’s Leadership
- Chapter 23 ‘His Doctrine is Deviant’
- Part IV Court Judgments and Other Court Documentation
- Part V Judicial Manuals and Reference Books
- Part VI Alternative Sources for Islamic Legal Studies
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Chapter 23 - ‘His Doctrine is Deviant’
The Majelis Ulama Indonesia Sampang Branch Fatwā on the Activities and Followers of the Shīʿī Preacher Tajul Muluk
from Part III - Legal Opinions (Fatwās)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
Book contents
- Islamic Law in Context
- Islamic Law in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Islamic Legal Theory (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part II Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Related Genres
- Part III Legal Opinions (Fatwās)
- Chapter 17 Introduction to Part III
- Chapter 18 Ottoman Fatwās on the Substitution of Defunct Endowment Properties, from al-Aqwāl al-Marḍiyya of Qāḍīzādah Muḥammad Ṭāhir (d. 1254/1834)
- Chapter 19 Settling Disputes among Nomads
- Chapter 20 Fatwās on Aspects of Modern Life
- Chapter 21 ‘According to the Qaul Muʿtamad it is Unlawful and Invalid’
- Chapter 22 An Online Fatwā from the Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣriyya on Women’s Leadership
- Chapter 23 ‘His Doctrine is Deviant’
- Part IV Court Judgments and Other Court Documentation
- Part V Judicial Manuals and Reference Books
- Part VI Alternative Sources for Islamic Legal Studies
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores a 2012 legal opinion (fatwā) of the MUI—the Indonesian Ulama Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia) empowered by President Suharto in 1975 to serve as a semi-official religious authority—on the Shīʿī preacher Tajul Muluk, operating in Sampang (East Java). The fatwā comments on the distinctive legal and theological doctrines of the Twelver Shīʿa generally, which are found wanting. The authors emphasise the collective probity of the Prophet’s Companions (ṣaḥāba), the illegitimacy of temporary marriage (mutʿa) and the legitimacy of tarāwīḥ prayer in Ramaḍān, among other issues, and cite a large number of premodern Sunnī theologians and jurists to argue that the Twelver Shīʿa are guilty of unbelief (kufr). They hold that Tajul Muluk must thus be prosecuted, not under the legal norms associated with apostasy (ridda) in the Islamic legal tradition, but with ‘blasphemy against Islam’ as defined in Indonesian state law.
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- Islamic Law in ContextA Primary Source Reader, pp. 245 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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