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ajiss-2648	al 'Alwani, Taha J.	Taqlid and Ijtihad	1991.0	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6684	232	51	The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 8, No. 1, 1991 129 Refections Taqlid and Ijtihad The Polemics of Ijtihad From the second hijri century until the present day, the reality, the essence, the rules, the conditions, the premises, the means, and the scope of ijtihad have remained a source of debate engaging some of the Islamic world's greatest theologians, scholars of al wiil, and&&: This debate has also been enriched by proponents of the view that the door of ijtihad was closed and that the fiqh left by the Four Imams obviated the need for any further ijtihad, as well as by those who claimed that this door was still open and that the existing fiqh was not sufficient to guide the contemporary Muslim world. One fundamental part of this return would have to be the use of ijtihad, for how else could Muslims incorporate Islamic principles into situations with which they had never had to deal?	cache/ajiss-2648.pdf	txt/ajiss-2648.txt