What does "ijaaza" mean?

[DanyalSAC]

Asalaamu alaikum -

Last year I took a class from the Al Maghrib Institute on the Scholars of Islam. After it was over our instructor, Shaykh Waleed Basyouni signed an "ijaaza" for each student. What does this mean? I tried to google the term and couldn't find anything.

JazakAllah Khairyn

D.

 

[Kakorot]

An ijazah (Arabic: الإِجازَهْ ‎) is a certificate used primarily by Muslims to indicate that one has been authorized by a higher authority to transmit a certain subject or text of Islamic knowledge. This usually implies that the student has learned this knowledge through face-to-face interactions "at the feet" of the teacher.

Source: Wikipedia

I heard there is different types of ijazah.