Essays about: "Dar al-Ifta"

Found 1 essay containing the words Dar al-Ifta.

  1. 1. In Search of a Lost Paradigm : A Case Study Approach to Retracing Traditionalist Influence in the Fatwas of Ali Goma, Grand Mufti of Egypt

    University essay from Avdelningen för mellanösternstudier

    Author : Fredrik Brusi; [2012]
    Keywords : Ali Goma; Fatwa; Dar al-Ifta; Islam; Egypt; Theology; Sunni; Modernity; Tradition; Religion;

    Abstract : This paper is an attempt to describe how two religious edicts by the current Egyptian grand mufti relate to an ongoing theological debate in the Muslim world on the nature of miracles and the state of mankind between life and death. The study illustrates how the mufti adheres to the Sunni theological school of Ash‘ariyya and in what way said school has emerged as a theological middle ground between the literal and interpretative schools of thought. READ MORE