ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the establishment of an imperial Islamic judicial system during the Umayyad period. Qadis represented, at that time, only one type of judicial agent among others, and they gradually established themselves as the main representatives of an Islamized justice. Similarly, the procedures followed at court differed from one city to another, and evolved as a result of discursive interactions between scholars and instructions sent by the central government. The chapter thus highlights the processes that allowed classical Islamic judgeship to emerge towards the end of the Umayyad period.
