- A
muḥtasib (Arabic: محتسب, from the root حسبة ḥisbah, or "accountability") was "a
holder of the
office of al-hisbah in
classical Islamic administrations"...
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typically shared in
common certain institutions, such as the
position of the
muḥtasib, and
certain architectural forms, such as
roofed streets and courtyard...
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Islamic law such as
those of the qadi (judge),
mufti (jurisconsult), and
muhtasib (censor and
market supervisor) were well-established in the
Mughal Empire...
- an
inspector of "markets and morals", the
holder of
which was
called a
muhtasib. He was
appointed by the
caliph to
oversee the
order in
market places,...
-
emigrated from
Medina along with his
family and
brother Abdullah Khashoggi,
muhtasib official,
during the
siege of
Medina in 1918,
settling in Damascus, where...
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inspectors called muhtasib, who
checked to see that the
medicines were
mixed properly, not
diluted and kept in
clean jars. Work done by the
muhtasib was carefully...
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secular power. As a result, the
intermediate rank of a 'restricted' imam (
muhtasib) or 'summoner' (da'i) was used,
denoting a
ruler seen as
legitimate by...
- Islam, its
legal implementation was
entrusted to a
public official called muhtasib (market inspector), who was
charged with
preventing fraud, disturbance...
- Al-
Muhtasib al-Mujahid
Hamzah (died 2
November 1067) was an imam of the
Zaidi state in
Yemen who
ruled from 1060 to 1067.
Hamzah was the son of the imam...
- anyway. From
Cairo he went to
teach in Damascus,
where he was
appointed muhtasib (overseer of
sharia in the marketplace) by the amir, and
returned to Cairo...
