qadiasker (military judge)

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The qadiasker was a high-ranking Ottoman judicial official who oversaw legal matters for the military and often served as a key advisor on Islamic law within the empire’s administrative hierarchy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic legal official
Ottoman judicial office
military judge
abolishedInPractice late 19th century Ottoman legal reforms
appliesToJurisdiction Ottoman Empire
basedOn Hanafi school
surface form: Hanafi jurisprudence

Sharia
country Ottoman Empire
etymology derived from Arabic qadi and asker (army)
hasDuty advising the sultan on Islamic law
appointment of provincial judges
issuing legal opinions
maintaining military judicial records
oversight of military legal matters
recording and registering timar and land grants
review of legal appeals
supervision of judges
hasJurisdictionOver legal affairs of the army during campaigns
military personnel
timar-holding sipahis
hasRank vizieral rank in some periods
hasVariant Anatolia
surface form: Anatolia qadiasker

Rumelia qadiasker
isSubclassOf chief judge
qadi
jurisdictionOf Anatolia
Rumelia Eyalet
surface form: Rumelia
languageOfTerm Ottoman Turkish
memberOf Ottoman ulema
numberOfOffices two main offices in the classical period
officeHolderOf high-ranking Ottoman judicial official
partOf Ottoman provincial administration
surface form: Ottoman administrative hierarchy

Ottoman legal system
positionInHierarchy one of the highest judicial offices after the şeyhülislam
relatedTo kazasker
qadi
Shaykh al-Islam
surface form: şeyhülislam
religion Islam
reportsTo sultan
Shaykh al-Islam
surface form: şeyhülislam
seat Istanbul
timePeriod 15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
classical period of the Ottoman Empire
usedIn Ottoman court
surface form: Ottoman central administration

Armed forces of the Ottoman Empire
surface form: Ottoman military

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Ottoman authorities includesOffice qadiasker (military judge)