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Abstract. The author reveals the content of the notion ijtihad and this institution development since Prophet Muhammad and emphasizes the possibility to consider the notion ijtihad from three different angles: as Islamic law source; as Islamic law development - Sharia law interpretation process and other sources of law origin basis and as academic lawyer's authority.