Faculties of Law and Arts Centre for Islamic Law & Society (CILS)

Formerly, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam (CSCI)

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Professor Azyumardi Azra: MUI's fatwa encourage use of violence

Monday, August 01, 2005
The Jakarta Post

Concluding its seventh congress last week, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued eleven fatwa that sparked concern over its increasingly conservative stance. Prominent Muslim scholar and rector of the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Azyumardi Azra shared over the weekend with The Jakarta Post's Ridwan Max Sijabat his opinion on the controversial views of the MUI.

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