HİSBE — TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Cengiz Kallek, Ziya Kazıcı and others)

الحسبة — موسوعة TDV الإسلامية (جنكيز كالَك، وضياء كازيجي، وآخرون)

The TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi entry 'Hisbe' (the institution of public order and morals in Islamic states). It covers the meaning and legal rule of hisba, the powers and limits of the muhtasib, its history from the Prophet ﷺ's time through the Abbasid, Fatimid, Mamluk, Maghrebi, Andalusi, Iranian, Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman periods, and a note on the Indian subcontinent. Its sections are by Cengiz Kallek (law and history of the central lands), A. S. Bazmee Ansari (the subcontinent) and Ziya Kazıcı (the Ottoman state).