ijtihad
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic اِجْتِهَاد (ijtihād, “diligence”).
Noun[edit]
ijtihad (countable and uncountable, plural ijtihads)
- (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.
