IOL reports that the highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia, where a strict version of sharia, or Islamic law, is applied, has launched an official website for fatwas, or religious edicts (in arabic).

The site aims at providing “quick access to fatwas on an official website,” says a committee for research and edicts affiliated with the Council of Senior Ulema (Muslim scholars), which operates the site.

… The launch of the website is apparently a response to the issuing of fatwas by Saudi and other Muslim scholars that clash with the official line of the Saudi religious establishment led by the Council of Senior Ulema.