ijtihad
Meanings
noun
- 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
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic اِجْتِهَاد (ijtihād, “diligence”).
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