{"id":156,"date":"2020-03-25T00:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2021-01-24T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T18:05:36","slug":"middle-east","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/islam\/middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East and North Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/03\/Al-Azhar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt<\/a> (March 15, 2020 Arabic)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/17\/muheisseni-closing-mosques\/\">Abdullah Muhammad al-Muheisseni: Closing the mosques because of the coronavirus<\/a> (March 17, 2020 English with Arabic)<\/p>\n<p>Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Najaf, Iraq<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/03\/Grand-Ayatullah-Ali-al-Sistani.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some Islamic rulings regarding coronavirus<\/a> (March 14, 2020 English)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/04\/Sistani-Fasting-on-Ramadan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fasting during Ramadan<\/a> (April 11, 2020 Arabic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/14\/international-union-for-muslim-scholars\/\">International Union for Muslim Scholars<\/a> (March 14, 2020 Arabic)<\/p>\n<p>Morocco, Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/03\/Morocco-public-gatherings-and-public-education-March-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<\/a> (March 11, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/03\/Morocco-mosque-closure-March-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatwa closing all mosques for daily prayers and Friday prayers, but maintaining the adhan<\/a> (March 16, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/01\/01\/turkey-suspending-prayers\/\">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<\/a> (undated, English)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/03\/UAE-Council-for-Fatwa-English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UAE Council for Fatwa<\/a> (March 3, 2020 English and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/03\/UAE-Council-for-Fatwa-March-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabic<\/a>; note: on March 16, UAE suspended all communal prayers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/2917"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}