Middle East and North Africa

Al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt (March 15, 2020 Arabic)

Abdullah Muhammad al-Muheisseni: Closing the mosques because of the coronavirus (March 17, 2020 English with Arabic)

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Najaf, Iraq

• Some Islamic rulings regarding coronavirus (March 14, 2020 English)
• Fasting during Ramadan (April 11, 2020 Arabic)

International Union for Muslim Scholars (March 14, 2020 Arabic)

Morocco, Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs

• Fatwa prohibiting all religious gatherings, of any size, and directing religious establishment to take on role of public education about the dangers of the pandemic (March 11, 2020)
• Fatwa closing all mosques for daily prayers and Friday prayers, but maintaining the adhan (March 16, 2020)

Turkey, Directorate of Religious Affairs: Suspending the establishment of prayer five times a day and the Friday Prayer with the community due to the new type coronavirus epidemic (undated, English)

UAE Council for Fatwa (March 3, 2020 English and Arabic; note: on March 16, UAE suspended all communal prayers)