MUJTIHAD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mujtihad" is a kind 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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