Talk:Mahkama

Sources

I'm slowly getting enough. Here two sources with material about two very specific time periods and countries, but maybe useful. Both authors are spelling the word as makhama, with kh, not hk. Maybe this is the North-African pronounciation, as one writes about Egypt and one about Morocco? Or maybe they're both influenced by French pronunciation and/or spelling? 1925 Egypt used a French legal code and had long employed Belgian judges.

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.

US judge working in Egypt describes the system of courts, which included the traditional, but by that time much restricted in its jurisdiction, "Makhama Sharia". Free access, searchable. "Orientalist" essay with a strongly colonial-era type of amused approach.

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.

Has section on "Village justice and local order in rural Morocco", describing attributions of hakim, "people's judges", and their tribunals, the "makhama al-jama'a", lit. "council court" but actually a district court.

Cheers, Arminden (talk) 22:46, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]