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  • Chapter 21 - ‘According to the Qaul Muʿtamad it is Unlawful and Invalid’

  • from Part III - Legal Opinions (Fatwās)
  • Edited by Omar Anchassi, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    Islamic Law in Context
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 223-233

  • Summary

    This chapter explores a controversial 2005 legal opinion (fatwā) of the MUI—the Indonesian Ulama Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia) empowered by President Suharto in 1975 to serve as a semi-official religious authority—on the subject of interreligious marriage, and specifically, marriage to so-called ‘People of the Book.’ The MUI finds such marriages to be unlawful, based on the preponderance of harm over benefit therein. This is somewhat surprising given the general permissibility of such unions according to the four Sunnī schools. The logic of the arguments produced in favour of the prohibition are discussed, as well as the political and social contexts of the debate.