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image located by
William Garrison, 1 April 2024
based on photo, source:
https://www.memri.org
A white-field flag with a bronze-colored image of Islam's Holy Book ("Quran"), resting atop a light-green-olive colored bookstand ("tawla"), and an Arabic slogan that translates loosely into English as "Fatwa Office"; c. March 2024. Reading the slogan from right-to-left, I do recognize the first Arabic word as "fatwa", which means "explanation" or "clarification" of some Islamic-theological topic. A fatwa is issued by an Islamic religious-law specialist judge called a "mufti".
This flag was seen in the office of the Grand Mufti of Libya. As noted in Wikipedia: "As Grand Mufti and head of the Dar al-Ifta, the office in Libya responsible for religious rulings, his fatwas are not law, but they nevertheless exert an important moral force in government policy and decision-making." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_Al-Ghariani "Dar" means "house" in Arabic, and "ifta" means of "give an explanation", I believe the slogan reads "Fatwa dar Ifta" or "house of fatwa explanations" or "Fatwa Office", while "fatwa chamber" would sound more legalistic.
William Garrison, 1 April 2024