Qadi

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

legal treatises dealing with the subject usually spoke of the appointment to office of a qadi [...].

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

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