Kadı

Taxation in the Ottoman Empire
Taxes
Adet-i Ağnam Adet-i deştbani Ashar Avarız Bac-i pazar Bedl-i askeri Cizye Cürm-ü cinayet Damga resmi Gümrük resmi Haraç Ihtisab İspençe Istira Maktu Mururiye resmi Muskirat resmi Nüzül Otlak resmi Rav akçesi Resm-i arusane Resm-i bennâk Resm-i bostan Resm-i çift Resm-i dönüm Resm-i ganem Resm-i hınzır Resm-i mücerred Resm-i sicill Rusum-e-eflak Selamet isni Tapu resmi Tekalif-i orfiye Temettu Tuz resmi Zakāt
Implementation
Ahidnâme Defter Emin Evkaf-i Hümayun Nezareti Hazine-i Hassa Hazine-i Amire Hane Iltizam Istira Kadı Kanun-i Raya Kanunname Malikâne Merdiban Millet Muafiyet Muhassil Muqata'ah Ottoman Public Debt Administration Regie Company Siyakat Sürsat Tahrir Tanzimat Waqf
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A kadı was an official in the Ottoman empire. Based on the Islamic concept of a judge (Arabic: قاضي‎ qāḍī), the Ottoman official also had extra duties; they performed local administrative tasks, and they were involved in taxation and conscription.^[1] They might even appeal matters of taxation to central authority; around 1718 the kadı of Janjevo complained to Istanbul that the local lord had set the ispence (a tax) at 80 akçes, rather than official rate of 32.^[2]

A kadı's territory was called a kadiluk; there could be several kadiluks in a sanjak. Each kaza, governed by a Kaymakam, had a kadı (though not every kadı was assigned to one kaza, and the boundaries would shift over time).

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