ijtihad

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the process of Muslim jurists making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the Qur'an and the Sunna; such a jurist is a mujtahid
the process of Muslim jurists making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the Quran and the Sunna; such a jurist is a mujtahid
the endeavor of a Moslem scholar to derive a rule of divine law from the Koran and Hadith without relying on the views of other scholars; by the end of the 10th century theologians decided that debate on such matters would be closed and Muslim theology and law were frozen; "some reform-minded Islamic scholars believe that reopening itjihad is a prerequisite for the survival of Islam
(lit exertion) - the process of arriving at judgements on points of religious law using reason and the principles of jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh)
Reasoned deduction," the principle by which laws established in the Qur'an or the Sunnah are adapted to new circumstances
effort; specifically, considered personal opinion arrived at through an effort of inference, induction or analogy
In Islamic law, the analysis of problems not covered precisely in the Qurn, the Hadth, or the scholarly consensus called the ijm. In the early Muslim scholarly community, every jurist had the right to exercise such original thinking, but the growth of legal schools prompted Sunnite Muslim authorities to declare that the principal legal issues had been settled by the 10th century. Shite Muslims have always recognized ijtihd, and jurists considered learned enough for this kind of analysis have great authority. In the 20th century an attempt was made to restore ijtihd among Sunnites to help Islam adapt to the modern world
Individual inquiry to establish the ruling of the Shari`ah upon a given point, by a mujtahid, a person qualified for the inquiry
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