Religion and Theology

Qadi is an Islamic term used to describe the judge.  It is not an easy task to become a Qadi (Kazi) because one has to be trained in the institutions of Qadi and practice the Muslim law and religion in totality.   There is an increase in the Qadi institutions where different traditions of their Muslim religion are taught.  The Ulema, the Islamic body which is responsible for teaching Islamic religion and the related sciences, is also responsible for training the Qadi, faqih and the mufti among other Islamic disciplines. These were called the Islamic Golden Age because they were developed during the classical times. These institutions have now spread in many parts of the Islamic dominated nations in order to train the law of Islam (Davidson, 22).

The Qadi has both the judicial and the religious role in his community.  In some countries, the Qadi is referred to as the magistrate, while in those countries where there is hybrid kind of constitution like in Egypt, the Qadi give the initial judgment over criminal as well as civil matters. The Muslim jurists developed some legal institutions that aimed at the training of important legal matters.

The increased number of institutions suggests that it would be seemingly the desire to have the executive arm of early dynasties in the Muslim society that will control the legal or judicial lifestyles of the Muslims.  This is not likely to be a good indicator because the old Muslim law needs to be revised since it has been so rigid over matters of capital punishment, and the doctrinal understanding of marriage.  Some of these aspects have limitation to the exercise of some human rights and civil maters (Davidson, 39). Hereditary kind of rule in judicial aspects forces people to be subject to the kind of undesirable lineage ruling.