Ijtihad

Ijtihad

Ijtihad (Arabic: اجتهاد‎, ʼijtihād) is the making of a decision in Islamic law (sharia) by personal effort (jihad), independently of any school (madhhab) of jurisprudence (fiqh). as opposed to taqlid, following the decisions of a religious expert without necessarily examining the scriptural basis or reasoning of that decision.

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