Islam Q&A (aka Islam Question & Answer) is an Islamic academic, educational, da'wah website which aims to offer advice and academic answers to questions about Islam based on evidence from Islamic religious texts in an adequate and easy-to- understand manner. It was founded by and operates under the general supervision of Muhammad Saalih Al-Munajjid, who is a Syrian-born Palestinian-Saudi Islamic scholar.
History The service was one of the first online fatwa services, if not the first. The launching of IslamQA.info in 1996 by Muhammad Saalih Al-Munajjid marked the beginning of an attempt to answer questions according to the Sunni interpretation of the Quran and Hadith. The website states that "All questions and answers on this site have been prepared, approved, revised, edited, amended or annotated by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid, the supervisor of this site."IslamQA.info website: "Introduction" Retrieved September 17, 2016
Popularity According to the website Similarweb, islamqa.info had 10.1 million visits in January 2022, down from 13.66 million visits in March 2021, similar to 10 million visits per month in October and November 2020. Similarweb ranked islamqa 205th in the world in the category of "Community and Society > Faith and Beliefs" websites in January 2022, down from sixth in the world in the category in March 2021. While it was the highest ranking Islamic website in March 2021, as of January 2022 it ranks behind Islamweb.net at 17.2 million visits. Alexa rated it as the 8157th most popular website globally, 3 March 2022; 7,612th in "global engagement", 15 March 2022.
Contents IslamQA is available in 16 languages, including English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish, German, Bangla, Chinese, Russian, French, and Spanish, the website provides fatawa covering basic tenets of faith, etiquette and morals, Islamic history, and Islamic politics.Jonathan Schanzer, Steven Miller, Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam, and Social Media, p 51 -52.
The site describes itself in the following manner:
The site's vision is to be "an encyclopaedia about Islam". Its aims (as described on the website) are:
Methodology The site describes its methodology as such:
Controversy in Saudi Arabia The website was banned in Saudi Arabia because it was issuing independent fatwas. In Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's Council of Senior Scholars has the sole responsibility for issuing fatwas."Saudi Arabia blocks 'Islam Question and Answer'," Al Arabiya (in Arabic), September 2, 2010 The council was granted this exclusive authority to issue fatwas by a royal edict issued in August 2010 (while restrictions had been in place since 2005, they were seldom enforced); this move was described by Christopher Boucek as "the latest example of how the state is working to assert its primacy over the country's religious establishment."Christopher Boucek, "Saudi Fatwa Restrictions and the State-Clerical Relationship," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 27, 2010 (accessed November 18, 2013). But as of now, the site is no longer banned.
See also Islam Online Imams Online
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