Etymology

taqlid

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Today it means: Conformity to traditional legal decisions in Shari'a jurisprudence. Full definition →

Arabic تَقْلِيد
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  1. Arabic · derived fromتَقْلِيد“imitation”
  2. English todaytaqlid

From Arabic تَقْلِيد (taqlīd, “imitation”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.