ijtihad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of Muslim jurists or scholars making a legal or scientific judgment by independent reasoning from the Qur'an and the Sunna; discretion.

Word forms

ijtihad ijtihads

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِجْتِهَاد (ijtihād, “diligence”).

Related words

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