qadi

• cadi, kadi, Kazi, qazi
• casis, caxis, casiz (archaic, Portuguese)
• cauzy, cazee, cazy, kajee (obsolete)

From Arabic قَاضٍ‎ (qāḍin, “judge”). Doublet of alcalde, casis, and cauzee.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːdi/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdi
• Homophone: cardy

qadi (plural qadis)

1. (Islam, law) a judge who is trained in and practices Islamic law [from 16th c.]
   • 1907, Various, The Olive Fairy Book‎:

     To this the Jew agreed, and the two went together to the great hall, in which the kadi was administering justice.

   • 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 [...].

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 74:

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

   • 2011, Jill Hamilton, The Guardian, 22 Jul 2011:

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

• Most Islamic countries nowadays use Islamic law only for civil law (chiefly family law). In such systems a qadi is accordingly a particular kind of (civil) judge, but this situation is recent.

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