RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's most senior religious leader has ordered a conservative cleric to stop giving unauthorised edicts after his call for boycotting a supermarket chain that employs women as cashiers. Sheikh Youssef al-Ahmed had urged people not to shop at Panda Supermarket because women there work in jobs that allow for the mingling of the sexes. Al-Ahmed says this is a violation of Islamic law. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh's office said Thursday he ordered al-Ahmed to refrain from issuing edicts, or fatwas, without authorization. Saudi media say the fatwa forced the chain to reassign 11 women employees Wednesday. The chain could not be reached for comment. A recent royal decree limits the issuance of fatwas to a senior body of Saudi clerics.