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Al-Qawl al-jāmiʻ fī al-ṭalāq (The exhaustive opinion on unorthodox and successive divorces) is a counter-treatise on ṭalaq (divorce) in Islamic jurisprudence by Egyptian jurist Muhammad Bakhit al-Mutiʻi (1856‒1935), a scholar who taught at al-Azhar in Cairo. It is a response to an unnamed “writer of the treatise on divorce in Islam published in al-Muayyid newspaper, issue 3664, on Saturday, 16 Safar, 1320 [May 24, 1902].” Al-Mutiʻi harshly criticizes the unnamed writer for having “encroached upon Islamic sharia” and “waded into a question that both early and contemporary scholars have ...