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ijtihadIn Islamic law, the analysis of problems not covered precisely in the Qur'an, the Hadith, or the scholarly consensus called the ijma'. In the early Muslim scholarly community, every jurist had the right to exercise such original thinking, but the growth of legal schools prompted Sunnite Muslim authorities to declare that the principal legal issues had been settled by the 10th century. Shi'ite Muslims have always recognized ijtihad, and jurists considered learned enough for this kind of analysis have great authority. In the 20th century an attempt was made to restore ijtihad among Sunnites to help Islam adapt to the modern world. |
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According to Cherif, a modern reading of the Qur'an based on ijtihad (interpretive reasoning) assumes that such equality is impossible. A brief section is also devoted to ijtihad and where it fits into the scheme of our analysis on thinking. The work before us is a matter of true ijtihad, moral commitment, and dynamic creativity. |
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