ijtihad
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic اِجْتِهَاد (ijtihād, “diligence”).
Noun
ijtihad (countable and uncountable, plural ijtihads)
- (Islam) The process of Muslim jurists making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the Qur'an and the Sunna.
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