qadi

qadi puhekieltä A civil judge in certain Islamic countries. (defdate)
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1985, Yasmin Hussain, Sharon Siddique, Ahmad Ibrahim, Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia:

legal treatises dealing with the subject usually spoke of the appointment to office of a qadi ....

The Qazi, his spiritual adviser, had recommended that the Russian be taken out into the desert and buried alive ....

While sharia law for divorce in many Muslim countries has been modified by governments, in Israel reform was initiated by qadis.