ijtihad

English

Etymology

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

Noun

ijtihad (countable and uncountable, plural ijtihads)

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

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