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mujtihad

DEFINITIONS OF: mujtihad

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n an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts

Type of:
Moslem, Muslim
a believer in or follower of Islam
bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
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