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ijtihads

ijtihads is the plural of ijtihad.

Meaning of ijtihad

Noun

ijtihad (countable and uncountable, plural ijtihads)

  1. The process of Muslim jurists or scholars making a legal or scientific judgment by independent reasoning from the Qur'an and the Sunna; discretion.

Questions about ijtihads

What is ijtihads the plural of?
Ijtihads is the plural of ijtihad.

Words near ijtihads in the dictionary

  1. IJssel
  2. IJsselstein
  3. ijtihaad
  4. ijtihaads
  5. ijtihad
  6. ijtihads
  7. ijuk
  8. ijussite
  9. ijut
  10. ijuts
  11. IJV

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