The Oran fatwa was an Islamic legal opinion issued in 1504 to address the forced conversion to Christianity of Muslims in the Crown of Castile in Iberia in 1500–1502. The fatwa sets out detailed relaxations of the sharia (Islamic law) requirements, allowing the Muslims to conform outwardly to Christianity and perform acts that are ordinarily forbidden in Islamic law, when necessary to survive. It includes relaxed instructions to fulfill the ritual prayers, charity and purification, and recommendations for how to handle obligations that violated Islamic law, such as worshipping as Christians, performing blasphemy, and consuming pork and wine. The fatwa enjoyed wide currency in Spain among Muslims and Moriscos – Muslims nominally converted to Christianity and their descendants – from the time of the first forced conversions up to the expulsion of the Moriscos (1609–1614). The author of the fatwa was Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, a North African Islamic law scholar (mufti) of the Maliki school.

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1400:

After 175 years of rule, the Trần dynasty of Vietnam was deposed by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_dynasty

1889:

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya

1905:

About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriso_revolt

1989:

Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim which was later discredited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

2007:

Iranian military personnel seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iranian waters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Iranian_seizure_of_Royal_Navy_personnel

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uptalk: (linguistics, intransitive) To speak with a rising intonation at the end of a sentence, as if it were a question; to upspeak. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uptalk

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