The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c12.274

c12.274

⁶ *Siyāsat-nāmah*, p. 49, *Fatāwā-i-jahāndārī*, ff. 91a-92a; *Khazā'in-u'l-futūḥ*, p. 17. Sometimes the *muḥtasib* himself acted as the *ra'īs*, e.g., I. B. (ii, p 26) considers the two terms to be synonymous Sometimes, however, the controller of the market was a non-Muslim who could not discharge the religious duties of the *muḥtasib*.