Iffatul Umniati Ismail: It is Permissible to Wish Merry Christmas
Iffatul Umniati Ismail graduated from the Al-Alzhar University’s doctoral program with a dissertation on rulings issued by the Indonesian Ulema Council. Can Muslims say Merry Christmas to Christians?
Sunudyantoro
April 4, 2024
IT all started with the absence of representatives of the fatwa (a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority) institution from Indonesia at a conference in Cairo, Egypt. It inspired Iffatul Umniati Ismail to write a dissertation for her doctoral degree at Al-Azhar University. In the Land of Pyramids, this Nahdlatul Ulama intellectual delved into the fatwa of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI).
Iffatul wrote a dissert
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