Harmony Program

The CTC launched the Harmony Program in 2005 in order to release and analyze documents from the Department of Defense’s Harmony database. The focus of this program is to contextualize the inner-functioning of al-Qa’ida, its associated movement, and other security threats through primary source documents. Harmony products released by the CTC are typically accompanied by an analytical report and the primary source material from which its conclusions are based. By releasing this material, the CTC aims to make these sources, which are captured in the course of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other theaters, available to other scholars for further study.

While captured documents offer unique insight into the decision-making process of terrorist groups they are most valuable when contextualized with information drawn from other sources. Scholars and practitioners should be aware that analyzing such data is fraught with risk. Documents in the Harmony database were collected on the battlefield unscientifically. There is no way to know just how representative documents captured by U.S. forces are of the larger body of information produced by al‐Qa`ida or other insurgents. Likewise, the vast database in which they are stored is imperfect and virtually impossible to search systematically. Readers and researchers should therefore be wary of conclusions drawn from Harmony documents alone.

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Fatwa 46 – Question: What is the ruling on the issue of some of the wives of martyred brothers who travel with the children of the mujahidin to territories of disbelief?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the question “What is the ruling...

NMEC-2015-203984_Fatwa46
Fatwa 45 – Question: What is the ruling when a woman travels without her mahram (if she has a mahram and does not go out with him)?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the question “What is the ruling...

NMEC-2015-125621_Fatwa45
Fatwa 44 – Question: What are the characteristics of the shari‘i hijab? What are the characteristics of immodesty?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the questions “What are the characteristics...

NMEC-2015-125621_Fatwa44
Fatwa 43 – Question: What is the ruling on the presence of male OB-GYNs who treat women when there is a possibility of having female OB-GYNs, although they are few?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the question “What is the ruling...

NMEC-2015-125621_Fatwa43
Fatwa 42 – Question: What is the ruling on the presence of a nurse in the office of a doctor by themselves without the mahram present in the city and in some villages?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the question “What is the ruling...

NMEC-2015-125621_Fatwa42
Fatwa 41 – Question: What is the ruling on carrying a weapon over the abaya by which a part of her body may be exposed or show its shape?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the question “What is the ruling...

NMEC-2015-125621_Fatwa41
Fatwa 40 – Question: What is the ruling on exposing the eyes of the females to the level that part of her cheek appears as well?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the question “What is the ruling...

NMEC-2015-125621_Fatwa40
Fatwa 39 – Question: What is the ruling with regards to wearing different colors of the lawful hijab such as (blue or brown)?

A fatwa issued by the Islamic State’s Committee on Research and Fatwa Issuance answering the question “What is the ruling...

NMEC-2015-203984_Fatwa39

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Fatwa 46 – Question: What is the ruling on the issue of some of the wives of martyred brothers who travel with the children of the mujahidin to territories of disbelief?

Fatwa 45 – Question: What is the ruling when a woman travels without her mahram (if she has a mahram and does not go out with him)?

Fatwa 44 – Question: What are the characteristics of the shari‘i hijab? What are the characteristics of immodesty?

Fatwa 43 – Question: What is the ruling on the presence of male OB-GYNs who treat women when there is a possibility of having female OB-GYNs, although they are few?

Fatwa 42 – Question: What is the ruling on the presence of a nurse in the office of a doctor by themselves without the mahram present in the city and in some villages?

Fatwa 41 – Question: What is the ruling on carrying a weapon over the abaya by which a part of her body may be exposed or show its shape?

Fatwa 40 – Question: What is the ruling on exposing the eyes of the females to the level that part of her cheek appears as well?

Fatwa 39 – Question: What is the ruling with regards to wearing different colors of the lawful hijab such as (blue or brown)?

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