The Global Fatwa Index (GFI) affiliated to Egypt’s Dār al-Iftāʾ and General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide reported that it has monitored 500 samples on various fatwas that have been issued over the years by official institutes as well as by radical and ultra-conservative Islamist currents on the regional, local, and international levels. The result of the monitoring was that 65 percent worldwide allows the celebration of the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad, while 35 percent considered the celebration as ḥarām.