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This word "hisbah" has been popping up a lot in my face lately and it is usually associated with three things: 1) Saudi Arabia 2) The Muslim Brothers 3) An Egyptian intellectual, writer, artist, or thinker.
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This word "hisbah" has been popping up a lot in my face lately and it is usually associated with three things: 1) Saudi Arabia 2) The Muslim Brothers 3) An Egyptian intellectual, writer, artist, or thinker.
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Dr. Nawal Al Saadawy has had her rounds with hisbah cases since the mid 90s until 2001 when she was exiled.
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Bloggers have been also targeted by hisbah lawyers and sheikhs the most famous of which is the currently imprisoned Kareem Amer who voiced his dissatisfaction with the presidency and the tutoring of Al Azhar.
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Bloggers have been also targeted by hisbah lawyers and sheikhs the most famous of which is the currently imprisoned Kareem Amer who voiced his dissatisfaction with the presidency and the tutoring of Al Azhar.
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He also accused the government of facilitating hisbah lawsuit to sever the political and religious agendas of certain people.
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The hisbah people called for annulling his marriage.
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In 1993, the hisbah sheikh called for divorcing the Islamic thinker professor Nasr Abu Zaid for his wife and declaring him a heretic because of his writings on Qu'ran.
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The most recent hisbah lawsuit in Egypt was against renowned best selling author and the editor in chief of Akhbar Al Adab newspaper Gamal El Ghitani whom he lost to Muslim fundamentalist cleric Sheikh Youssef Al Badry.
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Islam Q&A defines hisbah and men of hisbah as people who are dedicated, voluntarily or paid, to refuting and denouncing apparent immorality.
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