Talk:Al-Azhar Shia Fatwa

It is a fatwa issued by Al-Azhar university in Egypt declaring Shi'as as equals to Sunnis within Islam. The topic is covered in Historical Shi'a-Sunni relations and in Sunni fatwas on Shi'as. Pepsidrinka 06:07, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep -- no reason for deletion proffered by nominator. --SockpuppetSamuelson 09:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Appears to me the reason for deletion on offer is that the subject matter is covered appropriately in two other articles: Historical Shi'a-Sunni relations and Sunni fatwas on Shi'as. Abstain. - Saberwyn - The Zoids  Expansion Project 10:09, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Al-Azhar is an important Islamic university, and its rulings are taken very seriously. Whether this fatwa is of equivalent importance to the Edict of Nantes for example, I don't know, but I also suggest keeping this to counter systematic bias. --Squiddy 12:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * While this has nothing to do with systematic bias, but one could make the argument that every fatwa issued by Al-Azhar is important by virute of it being "an important Islamic university". If anything, this should be used as a redirect if its not deleted. Pepsidrinka 17:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I wouldn't want to see an article for every fatwa, but this one, in which Shia Islam is recognised as a valid form of Islam by Sunni scholars is important. It shows that extremist Sunni/Salafi hostility to the Shia is not supported by one of the more imporatant Sunni institutions. --Squiddy 21:14, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Content already existing as mentioned above, hence Delete as an unlikely search term. Zunaid 14:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Articles for Deletion debate
This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash talk 01:00, 7 January 2006 (UTC)