Mahkama (Arabic: مَحْكَمَة maḥkama), also spelled mahkamah, is an Arabic term meaning 'court' or 'courthouse' in a Muslim context, so a 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. The transliterated spelling makhama can also occur.
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
References
- ^ Rajki, András (2005). Arabic Dictionary with Etymologies, entry "mahhkama". Accessed 5 Sep 2018.
- Crabitès, Pierre. "The Courts of Egypt", in American Bar Association Journal, vol. 11, no. 8, 1925, pp. 485–91. Accessed 2 May 2024 via JSTOR.
- Turner, Bertram. "Technologies of truth finding", in Cahiers d'anthropoligie sociale 2016/1 No. 13, pp. 60-77 (65), ISBN 9782851973832, Edition de l'Herne. Accessed 2 May 2024.
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