MUJTIHAD

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 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)

Sense 1

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)