MUJTIHAD
Dictionary entry overview: What does mujtihad mean? • MUJTIHAD (noun)
The noun MUJTIHAD has 1 sense:
1. an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts
Familiarity information: MUJTIHAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MUJTIHAD (noun)
Meaning:
An Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts
Classified under:
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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