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Qazi
Qazi is the form of the Arabic word qadi, meaning a judge in Islamic law, used in Persian and South Asian contexts. In the Delhi Sultanate qazi courts administered sharia as the formal legal framework of the state. The office continued under later Muslim rulers in India.
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