The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, (abbreviated CPVPV and colloquially termed hai’a (committee), whose enforcers are referred to as muttawa, mutaween (pl.)), are tasked with enforcing conservative Islamic norms of public behavior, as defined by Saudi authorities.

The mutaween encourage people to inform on others they know who are suspected of acting unvirtuously, and to punish such activities. In 2010, a 27-year-old Saudi man was sentenced to five years in prison, 500 lashes of the whip, and a SR 50,000 fine after appearing in an amateur gay video online allegedly taken inside a Jeddah prison.

May 23, 2024 · The Mutaween are religious police who enforce the Islamic code of law known as Sharia in Saudi Arabia. Other religious police forces are also sometimes referred to as …

Mar 5, 2016 · You may have heard about Saudi Arabia's Islamic 'religious police' - a term used to describe the officers or 'mutaween' employed by the country's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the...

Known as the Muṭawwaʿūn (colloquially, Muṭawwaʿīn), this force operates in plain clothes and enforces such Islamic precepts as ensuring that women are properly veiled, that shops close during prayer, and that the fast is kept during Ramadan. Imposing impromptu corporal punishment for infractions is an accepted part of…

Also known as the mutaween (the pious), the hay’a (the commission), or simply as the religious police, the CPVPV acts as the “executive arm of the ulama,”1 or the collection of Saudi religious scholars with close ties to the government.

Known commonly as the Mutawaa, the infamous bearded volunteer members of the CPVPV, Hai’a, or religious police no longer patrol the Malls, shopping areas, and the streets of the kingdom.

CPVPV and colloquially termed hai’a (committee), and mutawa , mutaween and by other similar names and translations in English-language sources), is a Saudi government religious authority charged with implementing the Islamic doctrine of hisbah.

Mar 7, 2021 · In Islamic states in which the governments are either directly controlled by, or fall significantly under the influence of, Islamic clergy, the Mutaween enforce the state's interpretation of the Shari'ah.

Mar 27, 2013 · In January 2012, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dismissed the head of the powerful religious police and replaced him with a reported moderate — a move designed to appease growing complaints about...