Qadis

Religious courts and their judges (qadis) might handle issues dealing with marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, religious education, charitable or religious property (Waqf), or family matters. ❋ JeezusFreak32 (2010)

Docile qadis and other religious authorities ready to assume the office of inquisitors, in order to vex and persecute the stiff-necked supporters of the orthodox view, and also those who were not sufficiently unambivalent in declaring themselves for belief in the created ❋ Unknown (2010)

The role of the judiciary in this country, according to liberals, is to act as a sort of super-Senate, qadis on the hill who decide based on whim and fancy how the rest of us should live. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Islamic legal theory developed because judges -- qadis -- were rendering inconsistent and unjust decisions, often based more on their personal opinions than on the Qur'ān. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For decades, Muslim religious properties and institutions were managed under Jewish supervision-substantial inter-Israeli conflict over that supervision notwithstanding-and this allowed for a continuing stereotype of the recalcitrant, anti-modern Muslims and Arabs who were punished for any expression of Palestinian (or Arab) nationalism by replacing them-imams or qadis, for instance-with more quiescent Israeli Muslims, and by retaining Jewish control over endowment (waqf) properties and income. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, based on the sword-verses (as well as countless other Koranic verses and oral traditions attributed to Muhammad), Islam's scholars, sheikhs, muftis, imams, and qadis throughout the ages have all reached the consensus-binding on the entire Muslim community-that Islam is to be at perpetual war with the non-Muslim world until the former subsumes the latter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Almost immediately after Israel's conquest of East Jerusalem, Warhaftig [then Minister for Religious Affairs] had consulted extensively with Muslim imams and qadis, Jewish rabbis and Christian priests, and, two months later, he set up a council to ensure regular consultations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Omar learned from his uncle about his family’s history—they had been judges, landowners, officials, and qadis in the religious courts in Jaffa. ❋ Alia Malek (2009)