ijtihad

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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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