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What is a fatwa?

By Myriam Renaud, Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University

The attack on Salman Rushdie promptly led to speculation if the attacker had been influenced by the 1989 fatwa against the author. A scholar explains that a fatwa rarely calls for death.

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