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  • noun Plural form of qadi.

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Examples

  • 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.

    CNSNews.com Headlines 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

    American Thinker 2010

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JeezusFreak32 2010

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 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.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 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.

    War in Context 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.

    Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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