Judciary and Judges in Egypt in akhshed reign

Abstract

The judiciary in the Islamic law is one of the collective duties and the noblest worships, there is no prophet who didn’t ordered by Allah (glory to him) to make justice, and Allah honored his prophet Mohammed (Allah's blessing and peace be upon him) with the characteristic of judgment, the judgment in the era of the guided Caliphs and the Umayyad era based on the diligent and the return to the holy Quran and the Sunna of the Prophet Mohammed and in the era of Abbasid with the emergence of schools of Islamic jurisprudence, the diligent became second to the judiciary and jurists. Since the ruling of Ikhshidian upon Egypt, the judiciary was connected with the political conditions, then the matter of appointing a judge became one of the Caliphs duties or to the Wali's (governor) who can appoint whom he like and dismiss whom he don’t, so we can find that the number of the judges from 324 A.H. to 358 A.H. was about 15 judges, some of them were appointed for a few days, and some of them dismissed and appointed once again and some time for the third or the fourth time and this leads us that there was no political stability but in general the conditions of the judiciary and jurists weren't that different from the preceding one. I ask Allah to make this work purely for his sake And my final prayer is Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds

Keywords

Judges, judges, history