In Shiʿi: Shiʿi dynasties >mujtahid, someone trained and therefore qualified to undertake ijtihād). By contrast, those affiliated with the Akhbārī school argued for greater recourse to the statements of the imams (called akhbār) and more limited, if any, reliance on ijtihād. The latter did, however, accept the authoritative position… Read More
In Islam: Shiʿism Since that time, the _mujtahid_s (i.e., the Shiʿi jurists) have been able to interpret law and doctrine under the putative guidance of the imam, who will return toward the end of time to fill the world with truth and justice. Read More
importance in Iran
In Iran: Justice of Iran …have attained the status of mujtahid. Under the 1979 constitution all judges must base their decisions on the sharia (Islamic law). In 1982 the Supreme Court struck down any portion of the law codes of the deposed monarchy that did not conform with the sharia. In 1983 the Majles revised… Read More
practice of ijtihād
In ijtihād …who did so were termed _mujtahid_s. But with the crystallization of legal schools (_madhhab_s) under the ʿAbbāsids (reigned 750–1258), jurists of the majority Sunni branch of Islam came to be associated with one or another of the schools of law and formulated their legal thought within the framework of their… Read More
