Noun

(en noun)

(Islam, legal) A civil judge in certain Islamic countries.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Various, title=The Olive Fairy Book, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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 .