His own fatwas have often been challenged by a rival authority, the ancient university of al-Azhar.
He was murdered last year and she is now the subject of multiple fatwas and receives round the clock protection.
Abdullah has moved to curb the power of hardline clerics by, amongst other things, limiting the fatwas they can issue.
King Abdullah has moved to curb the power of hardline clerics by, amongst other things, limiting the fatwas they can issue.
As part of this struggle, Mr Gomaa has recently proposed a board to vet fatwas, with powers to punish those who issue incorrect or misleading ones.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which issues fatwas concerning accounting rules for corporations, has formally recommended that stock options be expensed as soon as they are granted.
Just as those who practice medicine without background should provide compensation for the damage they have done, the same goes for those who issue fatwas without being qualified to do so.
These fatwas explain the rum list of candidates: you either have to be an unelectable extremist who genuinely believes all this, or a dissembler prepared to tie yourself in ever more elaborate knots (the flexible Mr Romney).
The work of attorneys is well-established in Arab and Islamic countries, and there are well-established fatwas from scholars which approve of their profession, as long as the attorney is seeking justice rather than helping someone who is guilty go free.
While IVF using eggs and sperm taken from the couple in question is allowed, Sunni Muslims are prohibited from using donor eggs or sperm, and surrogacy is also forbidden after the issuing of several "fatwas" from the 1980s onwards from the Al-Azhar University in Egypt.
This development parallels recommendations that Dr. Waller made in his new book, Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War, in which he encouraged Muslim clerics to issue such fatwas, and urged the US government to publicize them globally through its public diplomacy machinery.
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