“The Fatwa Department will provide examples of cases of prohibition of wearing the niqab prescribed in Sharia,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to this information, the muftian will make the final decision on the local ban on wearing the niqab, Salimov added.
It should be recalled that earlier the Fatwa Department of the Muftiate of Dagestan examined the texts of Sharia and found no sufficient grounds for a general ban on the niqab. It was noted that in certain situations, for security reasons, a local ban may be introduced.
In early July, it was reported that Dagestani theologians were planning to issue a fatwa banning the niqab. The region’s spiritual leader, Mufti Akhmad Abdulaev, claimed that there will be a truth.
