Mahkama

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

Examples

Mahkama Building or Tankiziyya, built in 1328–1330 during Mamluk rule, it housed various institutions: a madrasa, a school specialised in hadith studies, a Sufi khanka, and at the end of Ottoman rule and in the first years of British Mandate, a sharia court.
Mahkamat al-Pasha or Mahkama du Pacha, administrative building raised in 1941–1942 in Casablanca, Morocco in a traditional Andalusian style. It was designed to contain the residence of the pasha, a reception hall, a courthouse, and a jail.