This report examines the Islamic State Hisba’s origins, structure, and operations. Informed by this extensive discussion, the paper finds four overlapping lines of enforcement: thought policing, body policing, spiritual policing, and market policing.

Subject

• Hisbah
• Jurisdiction
• Punishment
• Sharia
• Salafi
• Enforcement
• Governance
• Muhtasib
• Hadith

Date, Gregorian

• June 2021

Language

• English

Creator

• Almohammad, Asaad
• Holzgruber, Clemens

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Persistent URL

•  https://isisfiles.gwu.edu/report/zs25x847n

Resource type

• Report