hakim

ha·kim

a Muslim physician

Origin of hakim

Arabic ?ak?m, wise, learned, hence physician

a Muslim ruler or judge

Origin of hakim

Arabic ??kim, governor from ?akama, to exercise authority

also ha·keem

noun

pl. ha·kims, also ha·keems

A doctor, especially one who practices traditional medicine, in a predominantly Muslim culture.

Origin of hakim

Arabic hakīm wise, wise man from hakama to judge, decide hkm

noun

pl. ha·kims

An honorific traditionally applied to a Muslim ruler, provincial governor, or judge.

Origin of hakim

Arabic hākim active participle of hakama to decide, govern hkm

Noun

(plural hakims)

Origin

From Arabic حكيم (ħakīm, “wise, learned”).

The fanaticism of the caliph Hakim destroyed the church of the Sepulchre and ended the Frankish protectorate (Ioio); and the patronage of the Holy Places, a source of strife between the Greek and the Latin Churches as late as the beginning of the Crimean War, passed to the Byzantine empire in 1021.
The most beautiful portion of the mosque, however, still exists in the prayer chamber of Hakim, where are to be found the earliest examples of the cusped arch and the origin of many of the geometrical patterns in stucco at the Alhambra.
The province is divided into a number of administrative sub-provinces or districts, each with a hakim, governor or sub-governor, under the governor-general, who under the Kajar dynasty has always been the heir-apparent to the throne of Persia, assisted by a responsible minister appointed by the shah.
Abu Salih records (12th century) that the patriarch used always to send letters twice a year to the kings of Abyssinia and Nubia, till Al Hakim stopped the practice.
His successor A b Al-i al-Man~cr, who reigned under the title al-Hakim biamr allcih, came to the throne at the age of eleven, being the son of Aziz by a Christian mother.

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