Original sentence: " After students completed their post-graduate education, they were awarded ijazas giving them the status of faqih (meaning one who does law), mufti (meaning "professor of legal opinions") and mudarris (meaning "teacher).For conventional purposes the term "doctorate" is used in some academic literature for the Ijazah, even though there were some difference between the ijaza and the European doctorate.Madrasahs were largely centered on the study of figh (Islamic jurisprudence)
Edited sentence: " After students completed their post-graduate education, they were awarded ijazas giving them the status of faqih (meaning "one who does law"), mufti (meaning "professor of Fatwā") and mudarris (meaning "teacher").For conventional purposes the term "doctorate" is used in some academic literature for the ijazah, even though there were some difference between the ijaza and the European doctorate.Madrasahs were largely centered on the study of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).Much of the study in the madrasa college centered on examining whether certain opinions of law were orthodox.The mufti (professor of legal opinions) took this question, studied it, researched it intensively in the sacred scriptures, in order to find a solution to it.This process of scholarly research vas called ijtihad, literally, the exertion of one's efforts to the utmost limit.This scholarly process of "determining orthodoxy began with a question which the Muslim layman, called in that capacity mustafti, presented to a jurisconsult, called mufti, soliciting from him a response, called fatwa, a legal opinion (the religious law of Islam covers civil as well as religious matters)