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The Practice of Violence in the ḥisba-Theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Ahmed Abdelsalam
Ahmed Abdelsalam*
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Institute of Oriental Studies Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
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Iranian Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 547 - 554
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Copyright © 2005 The International Society for Iranian Studies

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1 Cl. Cahen, M. Talibi, article ḥisba in Encyclopaedia of Islam.

2 See D. G. Tor's contribution in this volume for an outline of the general framework of this conflict.

3 See Abd-Elsalam, Ahmed, Das mamlukische muḥtasib-Amt—Eine islamische Institution im Kontext sozio-politischen Wandels (Unpublished MA thesis, Halle, 2004), 21–35Google Scholar.

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5 Michael Cook's works on commanding right and forbidding wrong offer a great presentation of the development of religious discourses on ḥisba within the separate legal schools; for an outline of the historical development of ḥisba as an institution, see Buckley, R. P., “The Mutasib” in Arabica, vol. 39 (1992): 59–117CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also Kickinger, Claudia, Städtische Märkte des Nahen Ostens (Frankfurt, 1997)Google Scholar.

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