Over the centuries, numerous fatwas, or religious declarations, have been issued by Muslim clerics denouncing the practice of takfir as a usurpation of God’s judgment (the practice has no basis in the Qur’an). In 2005, one hundred seventy of the world’s leading clerics and religious scholars, representing every sect, schism, and school of law in Islam, gathered in Amman, Jordan, to issue a joint fatwa “to reaffirm that there is no [such thing as] takfir” and that no Muslim is allowed to label any other Muslim an apostate for any reason.
