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 "id": "concept/mazalim",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "mazalim",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المظالم"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "المظالم مؤسسة قضائية إدارية كان يعقدها الخليفة أو ينيب عنه قاضياً للنظر في شكاوى الظلم التي تتجاوز أعمال القضاء العادي؛ اهتم بها المهدي حتى بلغ به الاهتمام بإقامة العدل أنه اتخذ بيتاً له نافذة من حديد تُطرح فيه الشكاوى {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p. 76}، وبنى المهتدي قبة لها أربعة أبواب سماها قبة المظالم كان يجلس فيها للعام والخاص {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p. 166}.",
  "en": "Mazalim — the caliphal grievance institution above the ordinary qadi's remit: al-Mahdi's iron-windowed complaints house and al-Muhtadi's four-doored Dome of Redress {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p. 166}."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early",
  "period/abbasid-fragmentation"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "development-of-law-theology-institutions"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الدولة العباسية لمحمد سهيل طقّوش (ط7) ص 75، 166",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-taqqush-abbasi-batch-5"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "المظالم مؤسسة قضائية إدارية يعقدها الخليفة أو ينيب عنه قاضياً، للنظر في شكاوى الظلم التي تتجاوز أعمال القضاء العادي. {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p.76}\n\nاهتم بها المهدي العباسي، فاتخذ بيتاً له نافذة من حديد تُطرح فيه الشكاوى. {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p.76}\n\nوبنى المهتدي قبة لها أربعة أبواب سماها «قبة المظالم»، كان يجلس فيها للعام والخاص. {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p.166}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/mazalim",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The *mazalim* (grievances) was an administrative judicial institution, which the caliph convened or for which he appointed a judge as deputy, to hear complaints of injustice that went beyond the work of ordinary judgement. {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p.76}\n\nThe Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi took an interest in it, and he had a house made with an iron window through which complaints were thrown. {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p.76}\n\nAl-Muhtadi built a dome with four doors, which he called \"the dome of grievances,\" where he sat to hear both the general public and the privileged. {cite:tarikh-dawla-abbasiyya-taqqush p.166}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/mazalim",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-awasim",
  "concept/la-yanbaghi",
  "concept/muta",
  "concept/riwayat-al-imam",
  "concept/taat-wulat-al-amr",
  "group/hanafi-madhhab",
  "group/hanbali-madhhab",
  "group/maliki-madhhab"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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