mujtihad

Definitions of mujtihad
  1. noun
    an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts
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    type 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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