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Ijtihād (Independent Legal Reasoning)
The exertion of a qualified jurist's utmost effort to derive a legal ruling from the sources.
The exertion of a qualified jurist's utmost effort to derive a legal ruling from the sources.
How it traveled
- Sharh Usul KhamsaBasra · 1025explains
- al-Dhariʿa ila Usul al-ShariʿaKarbala · 1044explains
- Ihkam Fi Usul AhkamCordoba · 1064explains
- Talkhis Fi Usul FiqhNishapur · 1085explains
- Ijtihad Min TalkhisNishapur · 1085explains
- Rawdat NazirDamascus · 1223explains
- Futuhat MakkiyyaSeville · 1240redefines
- Rafʿ al-Malam ʿan al-Aʾimma al-AʿlamHarran · 1328explains
- Musawwada Fi Usul FiqhHarran · 1328challenges
Key passages(20)
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The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam · Muhammad Iqbal
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Culama Muslimin 21↗explains
ʿUlamaʾ al-Muslimin wa-l-Wahhabiyyun (title of a modern edition; the text is al-Shaʿrani's) · al-Sha'rani
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al-Mustadrak ʿala Majmuʿ al-Fatawa · Ibn Taymiyya
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Modern teachers who discuss this idea
Modern and living teachers whose books take up Ijtihād (Independent Legal Reasoning). These works are still in copyright, so we can’t show the text here — each links out to the book.
- Muhammad IqbalThe Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam(1930)View on Amazon→