English

Alternative forms

• faqih

Noun

fqih ‎(plural fqihs or fuqaha')

1. A faqih (or expert in Islamic Law), especially in North Africa.
   • 1973, Robin Leonard Bidwell, Morocco Under Colonial Rule, Routledge 1973, p. 171:

     In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human.

   • 1998, Alison Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women, SUNY Press 1998, p. 84:

     So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school.

Anagrams

• fiqh

French

Etymology

From Moroccan Arabic فقيه ‎(fqih).

Noun

fqih m ‎(plural fqihs)

1. fqih, faqih