Ijtihad
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Ijtihad is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a legal question. It is
Grand Ayatollahs of Qom, Iran; Religious leaders who have the authority to interpret sharia sources in Shia Islam used assertive titles such as Ayatollah, Hujjat al-Islam, which directly connect their identities to Allah or Islam, and gained tutelage over people and the administration
Salafi movement
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The Salafi movement, or Salafism, emerged in the late 19th century and has been influential in the Islamic world to this day. The name "Salafiyyah" is a self-designation that claims a return to the tr
Ijtihad
…Public debates in the Muslim world surrounding ijtihad continue to the present day. The advocacy of ijtihad has been particularly associated with the Salafiyya and modernist movements. Among contemporary Muslims in the West there have emerged new visions of ijtihad which emphasize substantive moral values over…
Syro-Egyptian Sunni thinker Sayyid Rashid Rida (d. 1935), leader of the Arab Salafiyya movement
Teachings of the influential Yemeni traditionalist theologian Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shawkani (d. 1834) have profoundly influenced generations of Salafi scholarship.
Tahir al-Jazai'ri (1920), one of the early leaders of the Salafi movement
Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi (d. 1914), a major scholar of the Syrian Salafiyya movement