Fqih

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• faqih

Origin

From .

Full definition of fqih

Noun

• 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.

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