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Oran fatwa

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The Oran fatwa was a responsum fatwa, or an Islamic legal opinion, issued in 1504 to address the crisis that occurred when Muslims in the Crown of Castile (now part of Spain) were forced to convert to Christianity in 1500–1502. The fatwa sets out detailed relaxations of the sharia (Islamic law) requirements, allowing the Muslims to conform outwardly to Christianity and perform acts that are ordinarily forbidden in Islamic law, when necessary to survive. It includes relaxed instructions to fulfill the ritual prayers, the ritual charity and the ritual ablution, and recommendations when obliged to violate Islamic law, such as worshipping as Christians, performing blasphemy, and consuming pork and wine. The fatwa enjoyed wide currency among Muslims and Moriscos — Muslims nominally converted to Christianity and their descendants — in Spain following the forced conversions up to the expulsion of the Moriscos (1609–1614). The author of the fatwa (mufti) was Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, a North African Islamic law scholar of the Maliki school.
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 * Main editors: HaEr48
 * Promoted: February 28, 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: Recently made FA and my first FA. An interesting topic during an interesting period in history.
 * Support as nominator. HaEr48 (talk) 18:43, 4 March 2017 (UTC)