Iffatul Umniati Ismail: It is Permissible to Wish Merry Christmas
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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?
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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