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The Practice of Violence in the ḥisba-Theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Ahmed Abdelsalam*
Affiliation:
Institute of Oriental Studies Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

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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See Abd-Elsalam, Ahmed, Das mamlukische muḥtasib-Amt—Eine islamische Institution im Kontext sozio-politischen Wandels (Unpublished MA thesis, Halle, 2004), 2135Google Scholar.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): 59117CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also Kickinger, Claudia, Städtische Märkte des Nahen Ostens (Frankfurt, 1997)Google Scholar.

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