The judge
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: The Judge the group
a judge · al-qāḍī · judge · the judge
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The presiding judge, taken as a generic legal role in the gloss that explains how both extremes of justice are injustice.
So if it be supposed that the judge between two parties exceeded, in his ruling, the limit laid down by statute, he would be unjust toward the party ruled against;
Nicomachean Ethics
A generic judicial figure used as an illustrative example of unjust judgment.
Again, although if a judge has given an unfair judgement in ignorance, he is not guilty of injustice, nor is the judgement unjust, in the legal sense of justice (though the judgement is unjust in one sense, for legal justice is different from justice in the primary sense), yet if he knowingly gives an unjust judgement, he is himself taking more than his share, either of favor or of vengeance.
Hence a judge who gives an unjust judgement for these motives takes more than his due just as much as if he shared the proceeds of the injustice;