Mujtahid

Patients for whom they have prescribed often consult the Mujtahid before taking the medicine.

Modern Persia Mooshie G. Daniel

Mujtahid is quite nullified by the fact that all his decisions must be strictly in accordance with the Qurán and the Sunnat, or rather with what to the Shía'h stands in the place of the Sunnat.

The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

He loses the right of private judgment, for only a Mujtahid of the first class can dispute the decision of one of the Imáms.

The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

The patient consulted a Mujtahid who told him that it was against religion to part with any member of the body.

Modern Persia Mooshie G. Daniel

The Emperor said that he had not restricted himself to that number, and that Shaikh 'Abd-un-Nabi had told him that a certain Mujtahid had had nine wives.

The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

He is no Mujtahid, for such there are not now amongst the

The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

The highest rank a Muslim Theologian could reach was that of a Mujtahid, or one who could make an Ijtihád, a word which, derived from the same root as

The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

The orthodox belief is, that since the time of the four Imáms there has been no Mujtahid who could do as they did.

The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

Amír 'Alí's position would remain to be proved for, since the days of the four Imáms, the orthodox believe that there has been no Mujtahid of the first class, and to none but men of this rank has such power ever been accorded.

The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

[331] The Shiahs have separate collections of traditions and schools of law, and they say that a Mujtahid or doctor of the law can still give decisions of binding authority, which the Sunnis deny.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894