ijtihad

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic اِجْتِهَاد (ijtihād, “diligence”). === Noun === ijtihad (countable and uncountable, plural ijtihads) (Islam) The process of Muslim jurists or scholars making a legal or scientific judgment by independent reasoning from the Qur'an and the Sunna; discretion. ==== Related terms ==== mujtahid === See also === ijtihad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia