Mahkama

For the term for Indian subdivisions, see Mahakuma.

Mahkama (Arabic: مَحْكَمَة maḥkama), also spelt Mahkamat, is the Arabic term for an Islamic sharia court. The Arabic word (see محكمة) has been adopted with adaptations in the wider Muslim world (see at Wiktionary), with derivatives in Persian, Turkish, Hindi and/or Urdu, Indonesian and/or Malay, etc. The spellings makhama, or mahkamah also do occur.

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