Jamia Nizamia - Fatwa

Fatwa

More than 2000 fatwas are issued by scholars of Jamia Nizamia every year.

They also answer questions asked weekly by subscribers to the Siasat and the Etemaad Daily in print and fatwas are available to through email. In 2003–2004, fatwa fees earned 40,000.00 INR.

Fatwas covered a wide range of topics:

• In 2000 a fatwa banned Muslim actors from performing "acts of polytheism" (Hindu "puja") on screen or head tonsure (Shabana Azmi).
• In August 2005 a fatwa allowed a Muslim male to marry as many as four women in one sitting. A national of the United Arab Emirates, about 45 years old, had married two women.
• In another fatwa, the Jamia Nizamia had absolved qazis from responsibility for data such as age, previous marriages that is entered on the nikahnama forms in relation to the bride.
• In October 2005, Jamia Nizamia issued a fatwa calling suicide bombings un-Islamic.
• A fatwa was issued in 2007 against the state government's move to provide reservations or quotas to Muslims in education and employment on the basis of caste system.