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Ijtihad
Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ijtihad is the process of reaching a legal decision on the basis of one's own interpretation of Islamic law. The word is related to the better-known jihad.
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Ijtihad appeared among the Muhammad's companions.