ijtihad
(ijtihād)
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A creative but disciplined intellectual effort to derive legal rulings for new situations from the accepted juridical sources of Islam. |
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A creative but disciplined intellectual effort to derive legal rulings for new situations from the accepted juridical sources of Islam. Ijtihād is not just one "religious" judgment among many, to be weighed against economic, political, and other judgments in deciding how to act; it is itself an "all-things-considered" ethical judgment based on spiritual principles, taking all other factors into account. |
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Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition, edited by Dr. Joseph Lumbard |
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