# ijtihad

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The process of Muslim jurists or scholars making a legal or scientific judgment by independent reasoning from the Qur'an and the Sunna; discretion.

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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