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noun • an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts | ||||||||
| 42% | 13 | Rulings that replace or override earlier rulings | ||||||
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| 41% | 8 | Scholarly efforts to derive rulings in Islamic jurisprudence | ||||||
noun • the endeavor of a Muslim 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 | ||||||||
A Muslim Legal Scholar Qualified To Derive Legal Rulings
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