The modern muhtasib:religious policing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Enabling the religious duty of enjoining virtue and forbidding vice was one of the most important functions of the Islamic state historically. The public enforcement of this duty, hisbah, was entrusted to the muhtasib, an officer who acted as moral censor and market inspector. The muhtasib existed...
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McGill University
2013
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