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In this excerpt from his manual on judicial practice, Khaṣṣāf describes the appropriate etiquette that the qāḍīmust observe when undertaking his judicial activities.  Khaṣṣāf describes the qāḍī’s preliminary rituals, the location of the parties within the courtroom, and the handling of the archive containing files pertaining to the day’s cases.In her chapter in Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Nahed Samour uses this passage to provide a spatial description of a court’s setting in a mosque, confirming the presence of jurist-advisors next to the judge.

This source is part of the Online Companion to the book Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, ed. Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale(ILSP/HUP 2017)—a collection of primary sources and other material used in and related to the book.

This excerpt from Manṣūr al-Ābī’s book of etiquette quotes a Prophetic ḥadīth, “Anyone who increases in knowledge and at the same time increases in cupidity for the world increases only in distance from God, while God increases in dislike of him.” In her analysis of Islamic mirrors-for-princes literature on judging in Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Louise Marlow refers to Pseudo-Māwardī’s use of this ḥadīthin his argument that the ruler should provide the judge with a sufficient allowance so that the latter will not harbor worldly desires.

This source is part of the Online Companion to the book Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, ed. Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale(ILSP/HUP 2017)—a collection of primary sources and other material used in and related to the book.

This qanun states that the administration of primary Qur'anic education (Taman Pendidikan Al-Qur'an - TPA) covers:

1. Islamism;
2. belief and God-mindfulness;
3. utility;
4. transparency;
5. modelling;
6. efficacy and efficiency; and
7. accountability (art 2).

It states that TPA is designed to improve the Qur'anic and Arabic literacy of students between 4-17 years of age, and that there must be at least one TPA in every village with its own principal/head (art 4). The average term of TPA study for a student is two years, although it can be extended (art 8(1)). The TPA curriculum, at a minimum, is to comprise:

1. Qur'anic literacy;
2. pronunciation and intonation;
3. worship;
4. memorisation of short letters and selected verses;
5. Qur'anic discussion;
6. writing and connecting hijaiyah script;
7. Islamic etiquette and memorisation of daily prayers;
8. the tenets of dinul Islam; and
9. to give infaq and sadaqah (art 19(1)).