Qadi

In each section, perspective shifts between Burton and the voices of those men he encounters along the way: his Indian servant tells the stories of his travails with Burton to a scribe; the qadi, the governor, and the shari in Mecca investigate Burton's hajj; and Sidi Mubarak Bombay, his African guide, shares his story with friends in Zanzibar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The head of the al-Azhar Islamic university, the chief qadi, the clerics of different mosques, are government-appointed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On arrival at Ceuta fully prepared for action with his assembled troops, the Amir sent his envoys, who included the qadi `Abd al-Malik and Ibn al Ahsan, to al-Mu`tamid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every party to a case, “sitting and facing the qadi the judge, conversationally presents its evidence which the qadi hears and weighs.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The qadi decides when enough evidence has been heard and at that point announces a decision in open court. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A few Arabian soldiers, rousted out-after Zabdas gained himself ill will by waking the qadi, I gather. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

She was not present when Zabdas sought the qadi soon after his conversion; but in view of what was overheard and passed on, and what happened later, eventually she believed she could reconstruct it almost as well as if she had been invisibly listening. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

He asked for a private audience and the qadi granted it. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

The qadi, then - chief justice, held court beneath the arch at the east end of the Colonnade, near the agora, and even the lowliest could appeal directly to him. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

A year later, the mufti and qadi (religious judge) of Nablus toured the neighboring villages and preached that anyone who killed a land-seller "would reside in paradise in the company of the righteous people of the world." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Historically, qat chews only took place one day a week and qat consumption was limited to the wealthy and those who made up the sayyid and qadi classes, or those who were descended from the Prophet and those who were members of the educated elite. ❋ Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor (2010)

Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Wiesenthal Centre, has defended the museum on the grounds that part of the site was used as a muncipal car park from the 1960s, following the site's deconsecration by a Jerusalem qadi, or Islamic judge. ❋ Unknown (2010)