Los tribunales de los alcadíes moros en las aljamas mudéjares valencianas

Abstract

Muslims from Valencia who leaved in the old reign of Valencia during the early Middle Ages, conserved, among other institutions corresponding to the islamic period, the tribunals of the Cadi institutions, inheritor of the preceding Cadis, who looked after the application of the islamic norms in the cases where all the litigators were muslims. The court of Cadis was advised by «alfaquíes» or expert jurists in islamic legislatión, as well as by other Cadis. The staff was composed by justice collaborators, attorneys, judicial auxilia­ries such as court clerks, translators, «zalmedines» and police officers, supposed to help it working. The Cadis also had hangmen and jailers, usually the same as the Valencian «foral» judicial organisation. The main characteristic of the all organisation of the Valencian Moorish Cadi tribunals was the preservation of the basic aspects of the islamic justice, introducing though progressively important influences of the Valencian justi­ce.