Dār al-ʿadl (premodern) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Dār al-ʿadl (premodern) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Rabbat, Nasser

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061451
Doc. NO	:	ALei1848
Main Entry	:	Rabbat, Nasser
Title & Author	:	Dār al-ʿadl (premodern) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Rabbat, Nasser
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,942 words)
Abstract	:	Dār al-ʿadl means “house of justice” in Arabic. In about 558/1163, Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Zankī (r. 541–69/1147–74) ordered the construction in his capital, Damascus, of a special building for public hearings of grievances ( qaḍāʾ al-maẓālim , or al-naẓar fī l-maẓālim ) and named it the Dār al-ʿAdl or Dār Kashf al-Maẓālim (House for the Review of Grievances). This was the first use of the term dār al-ʿadl . In total, seven Houses of Justice were constructed in Damascus, Aleppo, and
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1848.pdf