Search roughly 100,000 fatwas (Islamic legal answers) on IslamQA.org by keyword or question. Use this whenever a question concerns Islamic rulings, fiqh, worship or practice and you want sourced scholarly answers rather than your own knowledge. Returns ranked results with title, madhhab, issuing source and URL; call get_fatwa on a result to read the full answer.

Fetch one full fatwa from IslamQA.org by URL: the original question, the mufti's answer, the Arabic citations of classical texts, the issuing darul ifta and a link to their own copy. Cached locally after the first read.

List every darul ifta indexed by IslamQA.org, grouped by madhhab, with how many answers each contributed. Use to discover valid 'source' values for search_fatwas, or to see how the schools are represented.

List the most recent fatwas, optionally filtered to one madhhab or issuing source. For browsing; prefer search_fatwas to answer a specific question.

Report how many fatwas are indexed, how many have been read into the local full-text cache, and when the index was last rebuilt.

Rebuild the local URL index from islamqa.org's sitemap. Rarely needed — the index builds itself on first search and refreshes when stale. Takes about a minute and makes roughly 22 requests to the site.