Mahkama
Arabic term meaning 'court' or 'courthouse' in a Muslim context
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Mahkama (Arabic: مَحْكَمَة maḥkama), also spelt Mahkamat, is the Arabic term[1] for an Islamic sharia court. The Arabic word (see محكمة) has been adopted with adaptations in the wider Muslim world (see at Wiktionary), with derivatives in Persian, Turkish, Hindi and/or Urdu, Indonesian and/or Malay, etc.[1] The spellings makhama, or mahkamah also do occur.[2][3]
Examples
- Mahkama Building (Jerusalem) or Tankiziyya, built in 1328–1330 during Mamluk rule, it housed various institutions: a madrasa (school), a school specialised in hadith studies, a Sufi khanka, and at the end of Ottoman rule and in the first years of British Mandate, a sharia court.
- Mahkamat al-Pasha or Mahkama du Pacha, administrative building raised in 1941–1942 in Casablanca, Morocco in a traditional Andalusian style. It was designed to contain the residence of the pasha, a reception hall, a courthouse, and a jail.
See also
- Hākim (حاكم), meaning judge or ruler
- Mahakuma, term for subdivisions in India, deriving from the Arabic term
