kadi
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The kadi pakora finds large vegetable dumplings submerged in a yellow, yogurt-based curry that provides no clue as to the serious pepper kick that lies within.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2018
But the kadi and the other Saracens insisted that he should declare his own opinion concerning Mahomet.
And the kadi advised him to give large alms to their brethren, if he would escape from the hands of those whom he had slain.
The seat of the kadi, or civil magistrate, who here settled all disputes not deemed important enough to be carried before the sultan, the Gate of Justice was regarded with peculiar veneration by the Moors.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
"But the kadi?" she inquired, and by the question he knew that she was won to his way of saving her.
From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael
Their kadis are all suns, and yet they are in the dark.
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
A few steps beyond we reach the famous Puerta de la Justicia, so called because within it the Moorish sultans or their kadis administered justice—or it may have been merely law.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
With the faith of Islam he had long been familiar, and of the corrupt and tyrannical form of government of Mulai el Hassan and his kaids and kadis he had an intimate knowledge.
From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Caine, Hall, Sir
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