Definitions
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- noun A certificate of authority. Among
Muslims an indication that the person is an authority, recognized by someone as capable of interpreting scripture.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Among these notes are short ijaza-like statements for Mulla Sadra.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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University of Madinah where he graduated and received an ijaza from the College of Da'wah and
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He pursued his study of Islam at the Islamic University of Madinah where he graduated and received an ijaza from the College of Da'wah and Islamic Sciences in 1979.
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University of Madinah where he graduated and received an ijaza from the College of Da'wah and
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He studied at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, in Turkey, where he received his ijaza
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This diploma harks back to the ijaza - Arabic for license - given to students who graduated from madrasas in the Islamicate.
Dissident Voice 2009
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We do not have a formal license (ijaza) from his teachers that has survived, which could attest to his study with them and to the content of the curriculum; certainly, we know that both Mir Damad and Shaikh Baha™i granted a number of these licenses and attestations of study to their students as compiled by Majlisi II (Mulla Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, known as ˜Allama-yi Majlisi,
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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