Etymology

ijtihad

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Today it means: The process of Muslim jurists or scholars making a legal or scientific judgment by independent reasoning from the Qur'an and the Sunna; discretion. Full definition →

Arabic اِجْتِهَاد ← ['ar اِجْتِهَاد
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  1. ['ar · borrowed fromاِجْتِهَاد
  2. Arabic · borrowed fromاِجْتِهَاد
  3. English todayijtihad

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

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