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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
the endeavor of a Moslem scholar to derive a rule of divine law from the Koran and Hadith without relying on the views of other scholars; by the end of the 10th century theologians decided that debate on such matters would be closed and Muslim theology and law were frozen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: interpretation
History
Borrowed from Arabic اِجْتِهَاد (ijtihād, “diligence”).
