become corrupt, and instead efforts should be directed towards reconstructing Islam and social/political revolution, but this notion has not become "standard fundamentalist doctrine". What has become standard is that forbidding wrong requires "the organized propagation of Islamic values" in today's world. Islamic religious police If the "modern conception" of forbidding wrong is "the organized propagation of Islamic values", then in the late 20th century and/or early twenty first, one important way is by enforcing these values using the state's power of policing. The institution of hisbah has been used in some countries as a rationale for establishing Islamic religious police to stop wrong doing. Islamic religious police have arisen in some Muslim majority states and regions (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Aceh province of Indonesia, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran). Between 1996-2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan had a Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (at different times called a Committee or a Department for the propagation ...). In Saudi Arabia, the state authority responsible for hisbah is the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, or hay'a. Established in 1976, (or 1940) the committee was known for banning the sale of Pokémon, Barbie dolls, and forcibly prevented school girls from escaping a burning school in 2002 by beating rescuing firemen and locking the school's doors (15 girls died). The once feared Committee lost most of its power by 2016 when it was reduced to submitting reports about infractions to civil authorities. Iran has had different institutions enforcing proper covering (hijab) for women, preventing the mingling of unrelated men and women without a male guardian (mahram), and other infractions since shortly after the Iranian Revolution. Hisbah doctrine has been invoked by Islamic prosecutors in cases of apostasy and acts of blasphemy. In Egypt, the Human Rights group Freedom House complains, "hundreds of hisba cases have been registered against writers and activists, often using blasphemy or apostasy as a pretext". In one high-profile case, Nasr Abu Zayd, a Muslim scholar "critical of old and modern Islamic thought" was prosecuted under the statute when his academic work was held to be evidence of apostasy. See also Guidance Patrol, Iran's morality police References Explanatory notes Citations Further reading External links Hisbah institution Iqtisad al-Islami (Islamic economics) islamic-world.net Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller. COMMANDING THE RIGHT AND FORBIDDING THE WRONG, From the Reliance of the Traveller (Book Q) External