He asked for a private audience and the qadi granted it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

A few Arabian soldiers, rousted out-after Zabdas gained himself ill will by waking the qadi, I gather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

The qadi decides when enough evidence has been heard and at that point announces a decision in open court.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rejection of Saudi Arabia as an Alternate Forum for Resolving a Dispute:] Reference

Every party to a case, “sitting and facing the qadi the judge, conversationally presents its evidence which the qadi hears and weighs.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rejection of Saudi Arabia as an Alternate Forum for Resolving a Dispute:] Reference

On arrival at Ceuta fully prepared for action with his assembled troops, the Amir sent his envoys, who included the qadi `Abd al-Malik and Ibn al Ahsan, to al-Mu`tamid.    From Wordnik.com.  [De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Warfare in Eleventh-Century Spain (Al-Andalus), according to The Tibyan] Reference

She was not present when Zabdas sought the qadi soon after his conversion; but in view of what was overheard and passed on, and what happened later, eventually she believed she could reconstruct it almost as well as if she had been invisibly listening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

However, it should be stated here that this is not a call to vigilantism, for such punishments may only be meted out by those in authority following the legal ruling of a qadi.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

Medieval Arabs may have been the first to deep-fry blobs of yeast dough, the earliest record appearing in the 1226 cookbook Kitab al Tabikh by Muhammad al-Baghdadi as luqmat al-qadi (mouthful of the judge).    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

A year later, the mufti and qadi (religious judge) of Nablus toured the neighboring villages and preached that anyone who killed a land-seller "would reside in paradise in the company of the righteous people of the world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elder of Ziyon] Reference

Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Wiesenthal Centre, has defended the museum on the grounds that part of the site was used as a muncipal car park from the 1960s, following the site's deconsecration by a Jerusalem qadi, or Islamic judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All] Reference

The nightmare scenario is that a US platoon gets in a firefight in a village and accidentally shoots up a house full of civilians, and are overwhelmed by Iraqi troops and police and dragged before the local qadi and summarily executed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Informed Comment] Reference

Normally the qadi heard pleas in the open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

"s" : "qadi","k" : "a00,a50,b00,b60,c10,g00,h00,l10,p20,t10,v00","o" : "","j" : "".    From Wordnik.com.  [QAD Announces Record Date and Meeting Date for Special Meeting of Stockholders in Connection with Recapitalization Plan - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

To cite a few examples: ameer, amir, emeer, emir; cadi, kadhi, kadi, qadi, qazi; chamsinie, khamseen, khamsin; fakir, faqir, faquir; gasal, gazel, ghasel, ghazal, ghazel; hadj, haj, hajj; hegira, hejira, hijra, hijrah; kasida, qasida; kibia, kiblah, qibia, qiblah; and shaikh, shaykh, sheik, sheikh, sheykh.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference