In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
FATWA
fatwa
(noun) a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fatwa (plural fatwas or fatawa)
(Islam) A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer.
Verb
fatwa (third-person singular simple present fatwas, present participle fatwaing, simple past and past participle fatwaed)
(rare, transitive) To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence.
Anagrams
• tawaf
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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