Word: ijtihad
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...insisted that it was not amending the Koran-only reading it right. The commission then went on to grapple with the touchy and important problem of reconciling progress with religion in a nation whose principal basis for being was its Moslem faith. The commission appealed to the right of ijtihad, or exercise of individual judgment within the broad framework of the revealed word. Moslem law, said the commission, holds that in the Koran "what is not definitely prohibited is permissible," and the failure of Moslems to exercise this right of individual judgment is the reason for the "universal backwardness...