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CADI (g¢di)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 928 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CADI (g¢di) , a See also:judge in a mahkama or See also:Mahommedan ecclesiastical See also:court, in which decisions are rendered on the basis of the See also:canon See also:law of See also:Islam (See also:shari 'a). It is a See also:general See also:duty, according to canon law, upon a Moslem community to judge legal disputes on this basis, and it is an individual duty upon the ruler of the community to appoint a cadi to See also:act for the community. According to Shafi`ite law, such a cadi must be a male, See also:free, adult Moslem, intelligent, of unassailed See also:character, able to see, hear and write, learned in the See also:Koran, the traditions, the Agreement, the See also:differences of the legal See also:schools, acquainted with Arabic See also:grammar and the exegesis of the Koran. He must not sit in a See also:mosque; except under See also:necessity, but in some open, accessible See also:place. He must maintain a strictly impartial attitude of See also:body and mind, accept no presents from the See also:people of his See also:district, and render See also:judgment only when he is in a normal See also:condition mentally and physically. He may not engage in any business. He shall ride to the place where he holds court, greeting the people on both sides. He shall visit the sick and those returned from a See also:journey, and attend funerals. On some of these points the codes differ, and the whole is to be regarded as the ideal qualification, built up theoretically by the canonists. See MAAOMMEDAN Law; also Juynboll, De Mohammedaansche Wet (See also:Leiden, 1903), pp. 287 ff.; Sachau, Muhammedanisches Recht (See also:Berlin, 1897), pp. 687 if.

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