Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mujtihad

1 sense of mujtihad

Sense 1
mujtihad -- (an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts)
       => scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student -- (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
       => Muslim, Moslem -- (a believer in or follower of Islam)