Robots can’t replace senior clerics, but they can be a trusted assistant that can help them issue a fatwa¹ in five hours instead of 50 days,” said Mohammad Ghotbi, who heads a state-linked organisation in Qom that encourages the growth of technology businesses.

Source The best sentence I read today (so far) – Marginal REVOLUTION

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1 “…privately issued fatwas historically served to inform Muslim populations about Islam, advise courts on difficult points of Islamic law, and elaborate substantive law.^[4] In later times, public and political fatwas were issued to take a stand on doctrinal controversies, legitimize government policies or articulate grievances of the population.” Fatwa – Wikipedia