One of the features of an Islamic society is that those in powerhas their own enforcement branch called the Islamic religious police (also mutaween) is the police force responsible for the enforcement of sharia in some Muslim-majority countries. The word mutaween (Arabic: المطوعين muṭawwiʿīn) have variant English spellings: mutawwain, muttawa, mutawallees, mutawa’ah, mutawi’, mutawwa’) and literally means “volunteers” in the ...
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