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Here’s a very interesting development in the religio-political landscape in Morocco: an official council will be tasked with issuing fatwa proposals in the kingdom. The council will be composed of religious scholars, men and women, and the proposals will be put to the king (who also acts as the ‘commander of the faithful’.) Ordinarily, any cleric can issue his own fatwa, and it’s quite possible that competing and contradictory fatwas can circulate at any given time. With the creation of this new body, fatwas will be based on a collective opinion and will have more of a government oversight. It sounds like an effort to curtail the influence of the Islamists, though the Party for Justice and Development claims they’re quite happy with the development and commend it. Yeah, right.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.